dénoûment

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English

Noun

dénoûment (plural dénoûments)

  1. Archaic form of dénouement.
    • 1888 June, “Recent American Fiction”, in The Atlantic:
      Instead of a dénoûment consisting in the establishment of a common-school system in Acadian Louisiana, we have a double wedding; []

French

Noun

dénoûment m (plural dénoûments)

  1. Archaic spelling of dénouement.

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