galipette
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
galipette f (plural galipettes)
- somersault (the act of going head over heels)
- Coordinate term: cabriole
- roll
- 2008, Bastien Vivès, Le goût du chlore [A Taste of Chlorine], Casterman, →ISBN, page 66:
- Tu m’apprendras à faire la galipette sous l’eau ?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (colloquial, in the plural) roll in the hay
- 2002, “Tous mes vœux”, in La Femme Trombone, performed by Les Rita Mitsouko:
- Je te le souhaite du fond de mon cœur / Une parfaite nuit de bonheur / Qu’elle soit faite de mille saveurs / Galipettes et longues heures de ferveur
- I wish you from the bottom of my heart / A perfect night of happiness / May it be made up of a thousand flavours / Frolics and long hours of passion
Further reading[edit]
- “galipette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.