mouche à feu

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French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Possibly a calque of English firefly, but the evidence is not clear.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mu.ʃ‿a fø/
  • Audio (Canada):(file)

Noun

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mouche à feu f (plural mouches à feu)

  1. (North America) firefly

Further reading

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  • Steve Canac Marquis (1998) “À la lueur des mouches à feu”, in Québec français[1]