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French
Etymology
From bizut.
Pronunciation
Noun
bizutage m (plural bizutages)
- hazing, initiation ritual
2020 November 22, “« Mourir sur un champ de bataille, oui, mais pas à l’école » : le parcours tragique de Jallal Hami, noyé lors d’un bizutage à Saint-Cyr”, in Le Monde.fr:Il y a un peu plus de huit ans, la nuit du 29 au 30 octobre 2012, Jallal Hami, sous-lieutenant à l’école de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan, est mort noyé lors d’un stupide exercice de « transmission des traditions », une formule alambiquée et pudique pour désigner le « bahutage », autrement dit le bizutage, théoriquement interdit dans les écoles de l’élite militaire française, Saint-Cyr, le Prytanée militaire de La Flèche ou encore Polytechnique.- A little over eight years ago, on the night of 29 to 30 October 2012, Jallal Hami, a second lieutenant at Saint-Cyr school in Coëtquidan, drowned during an inane "transmission of tradition" ritual, a convoluted euphemism for le bahutage, or hazing, which in theory is banned in France's elite military schools: Saint-Cyr, the Prytanée militaire in La Flèche, and the École polytechnique.
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