proxène

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πρόξενος (próxenos).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pʁɔk.sɛn/

Noun

proxène m (plural proxènes)

a proxenos: public foreigner

1788, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, chapter 34, in W. Beaumont, transl., Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece:
Le proxène d’une ville en loge les députés, il les accompagne partout, et se sert de son crédit pour assurer le succès de leurs négociations.
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References

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

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