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- French · borrowed fromcoup d'État
- English todaycoup d'état
Unadapted borrowing from French coup d'État (literally “strike (or blow or cut) of state”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
coup d'état
Today it means: The sudden overthrow of a government, differing from a revolution by being carried out by a small group of people who replace only the leading figures. Full definition →
French coup d'État