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affaire

Pronunciation pronunciation key
ăfair

Function
noun

Definition 
a love affair or scandal, sensation, event: "The next day's paper had these additional particulars. 'The Tragedy in the Rue Morgue. Many individuals have been examined in relation to this most extraordinary and frightful affair,' (The word 'affaire' has not yet, in France, that levity of import which it conveys with us)…" (Edgar Allan Poe, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," 1841).

Etymology etymology key
affair, abbreviated from affaire d'amour love affair or affaire de coeur affair of the heart, à faire to do

Word or Phrase Origin
French

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