Etymology

faux pas

Today it means: An embarrassing or tactless blunder. Full definition →

French faux pas
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromfaux pas“faux pas, blunder; misstep, false step”
  2. English todayfaux pas

Unadapted borrowing from French faux pas (“faux pas, blunder; misstep, false step”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.