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expectoration

  • \ɛk.spɛk.tɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
  • [ɛk.spɛk.tɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃] France (Lyon)

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Composé d’expectorer et du suffixe -ation.

noun expectorations · expectoriation

  1. Action d’expectorer. Ce remède facilite, provoque l’expectoration.
  2. Ce qui est expectoré, crachat. On crachait sur le bourgeois par dépit de ne les rejoindre que si tard. Le bourgeois accourait de partout récolter ces pittoresques expectorations.

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"expectoration." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fr/expectoration. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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expectoration. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fr/expectoration

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"expectoration." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fr/expectoration.

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@misc{expectoration_2026,
  title = {expectoration},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fr/expectoration},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}