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pur et dur

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English

Syllables
pur et -dur
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Being a hardliner of the Quebec independence movement.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From the French pur et dur (“hard-line”, literally “pure and hard”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Frequently Paired Words

Québécois pur laine

Questions

What does pur et dur mean?
Being a hardliner of the Quebec independence movement.
Where does pur et dur come from?
It is traced to French.

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