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French
Etymology
From couper (“to cut”) + -eret.
Pronunciation
Noun
couperet m (plural couperets)
- cleaver, butchers' knife; (figurative) axe
- Synonym: feuille de boucher
2021 April 9, Benoît Floc'h, “Pour éviter le couperet, l’ENA a tenté de se moderniser”, in Le Monde:Pour éviter le couperet, l’ENA a tenté de se moderniser - To avoid the axe, the ENA tried to modernize
- (sports) knockout (match)
- un match couperet ― a match in the knock-out stages
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