Meanings
adjectivepur et dur (not comparable)
- Canadiannot comparablegovernmentBeing a hardliner of the Quebec independence movement.
Among separatists, Parizeau was known as pur et dur, hard-line and uncompromising.
2011, Robert Bothwell, Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories: Revised Edition, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 256
Origin
- Frenchpur et dur“hard-line”
- Englishpur et dur
From the French pur et dur (“hard-line”, literally “pure and hard”).
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