patelin
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.tlɛ̃/
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Noun
patelin m (plural patelins)
- backwater, one-horse town
- 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:
- Papa […] venait d'un patelin dans les montagnes qui ressemblait à s'y méprendre´aux paysages du Burundi
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Further reading
- “patelin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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