brique
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See also: briqué
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of Germanic origin, from Middle Low German bricke and Middle Dutch brike, related to breken (“to break”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]brique f (plural briques)
- brick (hardened block used for building)
- carton box (food packaging)
- une brique de lait ― a milk carton
- (informal) doorstop (thick, massive book, large book)
- Synonym: pavé
- (slang, dated) ten thousand French francs (one million old francs, ~1524 euros)
- 1994, Yasmina Reza, ‘Art’:
- Marc: […] Un garçon aisé mais qui ne roule pas sur l’or. Aisé sans plus, aisé bon. Qui achète un tableau blanc vingt briques.
- Marc: […] A boy who is well-off but not rolling in it. Well-off, but no more than that, simply well-off. The type to buy a blank canvas for 200 grand [i.e. 200,000 francs, about 30,000 euros].
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: bric
Further reading
[edit]- “brique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- brique on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English brick, French brique.
Noun
[edit]brique f (plural briques)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier bricabraque, borrowed from French bric-à-brac.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: bri‧que
Noun
[edit]brique m (plural briques)
- (South Brazil, colloquial) exchange (an act of exchanging or trading something for another thing)
- Synonyms: troca, permuta, câmbio, intercâmbio
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