grasse matinée
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French
Etymology
Literally, “fat morning”, from the 16th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
grasse matinée f (plural grasses matinées)
- (idiomatic) sleep-in, lie-in (period spent lying in bed for longer than usual)
- Je n’aurais pas dû faire la grasse matinée.
- I shouldn't have slept in.
- (literally, “I shouldn't have done a fat morning.”)
- faire la grasse matinée.
- to sleep in.
- 1871, Émile Zola, La Curée:
- La société, sauvée encore une fois, se félicitait, se reposait, faisait la grasse matinée, maintenant qu’un gouvernement fort la protégeait et lui ôtait jusqu’au souci de penser et de régler ses affaires.
- Society, saved once again, shook hands with itself, took its ease, lay abed of a morning, now that it had a strong government to protect it and relieve it from the trouble of thinking and looking after its interests.
- 2011, Stéphane CLERGET, Marie BERNARD, Eduquer son enfant Pour les Nuls, First, →ISBN:
- L’expression «grasse matinée» est née au XVe siècle ; on disait d’abord «dormir grande matinée», puis «dormir grasse matinée», enfin «faire la grasse matinée». Dans cette expression, le mot «gras», signifiant l’abondance, la fertilité, ...
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Further reading
grasse matinée on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
