grande passion

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

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"And if in fact she takes to a grande passion, / It is a very serious thing indeed: / Nine times in ten 't is but caprice or fashion, / Coquetry, or a wish to take the lead […]."
"He then said that she was the daughter of a French opera dancer, Céline Varens, toward whom he once cherished what he called a "grande passion"."
"‘A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.’"

From French grande passion (“great passion”).

grandes passions (plural)

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