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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a la so.vɛt/, /a la sɔ.vɛt/
Adverb
à la sauvette
- hastily, hurriedly
- Synonym: à la va-vite
- on the sly (used especially of selling in the street or on the beach)
- vendeur à la sauvette ― to sell on the sly
2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:minibus collés pare-chocs contre pare-chocs pour vendre à la sauvette des œufs durs- minibuses stuck bumper to bumper trying to flof hard-boiled eggs