truand

truand (plural truands)

1. Obsolete form of truant.

truand (comparative more truand, superlative most truand)

1. Obsolete form of truant.

• “truand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Durant, durant, tundra

From Transalpine Gaulish *truganto. Cognate to English truant, Irish trogán, Welsh tru.

• IPA^(key): /tʁy.ɑ̃/

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truand m (plural truands, feminine truande)

1. (historical) (professional) beggar (in the Middle Ages)
2. crook; gangster
3. (colloquial) beggar

• truander

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

• durant