Etymology

objet trouvé

Today it means: Synonym of found object. Full definition →

French objet
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The story

  1. French · derived fromobjet“object”
  2. English todayobjet trouvé

French objet (“object”) + trouvé (“found”)

Words from the same roots

Frenchobjet all →

objet d'artobjet de vertu

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.