pur et dur

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English

Etymology

From the French pur et dur (“hard-line”, literally “pure and hard”).

Adjective

pur et dur (not comparable)

  1. (Canadian politics) Being a hardliner of the Quebec independence movement.
    • 2011, Robert Bothwell, Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories: Revised Edition, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 256:
      Among separatists, Parizeau was known as pur et dur, hard-line and uncompromising.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pyʁ e dyʁ/
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Adjective

pur et dur (feminine pure et dure, masculine plural purs et durs, feminine plural pures et dures)

  1. (chiefly politics) extreme, hard-line, uncompromising
    Synonyms: déterminé, extrémiste
    un traditionalisme pur et dur ― staunch traditionalism
  2. archetypal, exemplary
  3. (Canadian politics) pur et dur (being a hardliner of the Quebec independence movement)
    Coordinate term: pure laine

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