Etymology

singerie

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Today it means: A satirical genre of visual arts depicting monkeys imitating human behaviour, often fashionably dressed. Full definition →

French singerie
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromsingerie
  2. English todaysingerie

Borrowed from French singerie.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.