Etymology

pur et dur

Today it means: Being a hardliner of the Quebec independence movement. Full definition →

French pur et dur
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  1. French · borrowed frompur et dur“hard-line”
  2. English todaypur et dur

From the French pur et dur (“hard-line”, literally “pure and hard”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.