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French
Etymology
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Adjective
américain (feminine américaine, masculine plural américains, feminine plural américaines)
- (relational) of America; American
1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter XI, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 108; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:Et pourtant São Paulo ne m’a jamais paru laide : c’était une ville sauvage comme le sont toutes les villes américaines, à l’exception peut-être de Washington, D.C., [...]- And yet I never thought that São Paulo was ugly: it was a ‘wild’ town, as are all American towns, with the possible exception of Washington, D.C.,
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Noun
américain m (plural américains)
- sandwich, generally with ham or pork, and French fries
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