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French
Etymology
From sauvage + -on.
Pronunciation
Noun
sauvageon m (plural sauvageons)
- wildling, plant spawned in nature without human intervention
1970, Samuel Beckett, Mercier et Camier, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, pages 11–12:Au centre, ou à peu près, s’élevait un hêtre pourpre immense et luisant, planté, à en croire l’enseigne grossièrement clouée au tronc, par un maréchal de France […] C’est sans doute à cet arbre que le square devait d’exister, conséquence dont le maréchal ne devait guère se douter, alors qu’à l’écart des quinconces, devant une société élégante et repue, il soutenait, dans le trou gras rosée vespérale, le frêle sauvageon.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
sauvageon m (plural sauvageons, feminine sauvageonne)
- youngster left for itself not put into education
Adjective
sauvageon (feminine sauvageonne, masculine plural sauvageons, feminine plural sauvageonnes)
- (relational) wildling
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