Entry: malentendu (n.)
In context: "Marathe's malentendu of live-in."
Definition: A misunderstanding.
Other: A clean, neat etymology: Etymology: < French mal entendu (16th cent. in Middle French as adjective and as noun) < mal wrongly (see mal- prefix) + entendu , past participle of entendre to hear, understand (see intend v.).(Show Less)
SNOOT score: 3
Page: 1062
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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