croustillant

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁus.ti.jɑ̃/
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Adjective

croustillant (feminine croustillante, masculine plural croustillants, feminine plural croustillantes)

  1. crispy, crunchy
  2. (figurative) suggestive, bawdy, filthy, saucy
    • 2023 August, Arnaud de Montjoye, “En touriste à Auschwitz”, in Le Monde diplomatique, page 24:
      Alors, quand il repère, sur le Web, une scène croustillante montrant un groupe en train de se livrer à « une partie de chat, à poil, dans un camp de la mort », c’est comme un déclic.
      So when he sees a raunchy video online showing a group of people playing "a game of tag, naked, in a death camp", it triggers something in him.

Participle

croustillant

  1. present participle of croustiller

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