Etymology

dessin d'enfant

Today it means: A type of graph embedding used to study Riemann surfaces and to provide combinatorial invariants for the action of the absolute Galois group of the rational numbers. Full definition →

French dessin d'enfant
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromdessin d'enfant“child's drawing”
  2. English todaydessin d'enfant

Borrowed from French dessin d'enfant (“child's drawing”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.