hirondelle
French
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Old Occitan irondela, diminutive of irunda, ironda, ultimately from Latin hirundō. Replaced Old French arondelle, diminutive of aronde, from Latin hirundō (compare also harundō).
Pronunciation
    
- (mute h) IPA(key): /i.ʁɔ̃.dɛl/
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Noun
    
hirondelle f (plural hirondelles)
- swallow (bird)
- 1976, Michel Fugain et le Big Bazar, "Le printemps".
- L'hirondelle et la fauvette, c'est la forêt qui me l'a dit / L'hirondelle et la fauvette, ont déjà fait leur nid- (please add an English translation of this quote)
 
 
 
- 1976, Michel Fugain et le Big Bazar, "Le printemps".
- (printing) alignment mark printed in the margin
- (colloquial, dated) policeman on bicycle or motorcycle
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Further reading
    
- “hirondelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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