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- French · borrowed fromturquerie“Turkishness”
- English todayTurquerie
Borrowed from French turquerie (“Turkishness”), from turc (“Turkish”) + -erie (“-ness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A trend in 18th-century Western European culture inspired by Ottoman culture. Full definition →
Borrowed from French turquerie (“Turkishness”), from turc (“Turkish”) + -erie (“-ness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.