beuverie
French
editEtymology
editFrom beuveur (“a drinker”) + -erie, with the first part being an antiquated form of current buveur. A more regular form buverie was created in the sixteenth century but dropped from usage in the nineteenth.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbeuverie f (plural beuveries)
- binge, excessive (usually social) drinking
- 1949 [1842], Henri Mongault, Les âmes mortes, translation of original by Nicolas Gogol:
- Je n’ai qu’un pauvre lopin de terre, mes paysans se croisent les bras, ne rêvent que de beuveries
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
edit- “beuverie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.