doigté

• IPA^(key): /dwa.te/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /dwa.te/, /dwɛ.te/
• Rhymes: -te, -e
• Homophones: doigtée, doigtées, doigter, doigtés, doigtez

Past participle substantivized from French doigter (“to finger, to put fingerings on a music sheet”). [from 18th c.]

• (music, dated) doigter

doigté m (plural doigtés)

1. (music) fingering
2. (figurative) skill, tact
   • (Can we date this quote?), Manuel des farces et attrapes, Kinkajou/Gallimard, front cover:

     Faire des farces, cela s'apprend... Il faut avoir des idées, du doigté, de la patience. Il faut aussi savoir choisir sa victime.

     Making jokes, that is learned... You have to have ideas, tact, patience. You also have to know how to choose your victim.

Regular past participle of French doigter.

doigté (feminine doigtée, masculine plural doigtés, feminine plural doigtées)

1. past participle of doigter (“to finger”)

• “doigté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.