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vouvoyer

verb vouvoyers · vouvoyering · vouvoyered

alternative Alternative form of vousvoyer [Guy] Bertrand said he should also have twigged when “Bouchard” – whom he has addressed using the familiar “tu” for years – started off the conversation using the formal “vous.” “I found myself saying, ‘Hello, Lucien, how is it going?’ and he ‘vouvoyered’ me and he had a bit of a haughty air. So I t

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@misc{vouvoyer_2026,
  title = {vouvoyer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vouvoyer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}