retardataire

Borrowed from French retardataire.

retardataire

1. anachronistic, dated, especially in artistic style.
   • 1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 14:

     Ditto with "community." [He says that] the notion that there's such a thing (or should be such a thing!) as a gay "community" is a product of those messy gay lib days. It comes in for a similarly superficial and retardataire drubbing, with however the extra good laugh that he can't refrain from referring to that nonexistent community himself a couple times.

From retarder +‎ -aire.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.taʁ.da.tɛʁ/

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retardataire (plural retardataires)

1. late (arriving late)
2. outdated

retardataire m (plural retardataires)

1. latecomer
   • 1894, Crafty, À travers Paris, page 28:

     On ne rencontre ici que les retardataires en train d’étudier sous l’œil des professionnels.

     Here one only encounters latecomers studying under the eye of professionals.

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