joli cœur

See also: joli-cœur, Joli-Cœur, Jolicoeur, and Jolicœur

French

Alternative forms

joli-cœur

Etymology

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʒɔ.li kœʁ/

Noun

joli cœur m (plural jolis cœurs)

a gallant, flirty man
(Réunion) Synonym of bois de joli cœur (Pittosporum senacia Putt.)[1]

Derived terms

References

Dominique Martiré (2021) Faune et flore de La Réunion, Paris: Delachaux et Niestlé, →ISBN, p. 140.

Further reading

“joli” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
“joli”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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