poupée

Inherited from Middle French poupée, from Old French poupee, popede (cf. also Medieval Latin *pupāta), or Vulgar Latin *puppa (with the French suffix -ée later added), ultimately from Latin pūpa (“girl; doll, puppet”).

• IPA^(key): /pu.pe/

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poupée f (plural poupées)

1. doll (object)

• Haitian Creole: pope
• → Vietnamese: búp bê

• “poupee” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “poupée” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “poupee” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “poupée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.