"tomte" meaning in Français

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Noun

Forms: tomtes [plural]
  1. Petite créature humanoïde légendaire du folklore scandinave.
    Sense id: fr-tomte-fr-noun-hNoYBm3U Categories (other): Exemples en français
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nisse

Inflected forms

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    {
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          "ref": "Michel Tournier, Selma Lagerlöf, la grande dame qui venait du froid, dans Les vertes lectures, collection Folio, 2007, page 135",
          "text": "Parce qu’il [Nils Holgersson] a été magiquement transformé en nain grand comme le pouce par un « tomte », il voit s’ouvrir à lui des champs de connaissance d’une richesse surhumaine."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Sylvain Audet-Găinar, Charivari à Bucarest, éditions Robert Laffont, Montréal, 2024, page 84",
          "text": "Le tomte aux allures de roi du macadam est passionné par ce que je dégoise."
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