Fwd: "Quatorze Juillet, n." - Word of the Day from the OED

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Your word for today is: Quatorze Juillet, n.

Quatorze Juillet, n.
Pronunciation: Brit. /kəˈtɔːz ʒwiːˈeɪ/,  U.S. /kəˈtɔ(ə)rz ʒwiˈeɪ/
Forms: also with lower-case initial(s).
Etymology: <  French Quatorze Juillet (1865 in this sense), lit.
‘fourteenth of July’ <  quatorze (see quatorze n.) + juillet July
(1213 in Old French), alteration of juignet July (1119; <  juin June
n. + -et -et suffix1), after juil July n.
Not fully naturalized in English.



O.E.D. Suppl. (1982) gives the non-naturalized pronunciation (katǫrz
ʒwiyę) /katɔrz ʒwijɛ/.
  The anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789,
celebrated as a national holiday in France; Bastille Day.
1899 Overland Monthly July 86/2 Here was somebody to converse with in
French—no, better yet, in Provençal. And then it was the ‘Quatorze
Juillet’.
1951  R. Senhouse tr.  Colette Last of Chéri 196 One day, not long
before the Quatorze Juillet, Charlotte Peloux was lunching with them.
1966  H. W. Yoxall Fashion of Life xxiv. 233 A firework display.far
more lavish than anything I'd seen in Paris on the Quatorze Juillet.
1977  E. Ambler Send no more Roses x. 214 We had eaten simply..so that
the servants could get off early to their local Quatorze juillet fête.
1991  J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. xxi. 336 Palau thinks this
happened around Christmas 1904. But the summer is also likely;
possibly around the quatorze juillet.

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