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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French Quiquetonne.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Quiquetonne m or f by sense
- (historical) a Middle French surname
Further reading
- Frédéric Lock (1855) Guide alphabétique des rues et monuments de Paris a l'usage des voyageurs et des Parisiens, où l'on trouve la situation, l'histoire et la description de chaque rue et de chaque monument (in French), Paris: Librairie Hachette, published 1855, page 423:
Tiquetonne (rue), commence r. Montorgueil , 39, finit r. Montmartre, 42. — IIIe arr. / En 1372, c’était la rue Denis le Coffrier, du nom d’un particulier. Vers 1400, elle fut appelée Quiquetonne et par altération Tiquetonne, à cause d’un boulanger nommé Roger Quiquetonne qui y demeurait.
Middle French
Etymology
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Proper noun
Quiquetonne m or f
- a surname