Noun: dessin
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | dessin |
| Plural m | dessins |
Sample Sentences
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C'est dur de se remettre au dessin, à mon âge, quand on n'a jamais fait d'autres tentatives que celle d'un boa fermé et celle d'un boa ouvert, à l'âge de six ans ! (It is hard to take up drawing again at my age, when I have never made any pictures except those of the boa constrictor from the outside and the boa constrictor from the inside, since I was six.) [1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, chapter IV, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 20:]
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Aussi modeste qu'habile, il n'était jamais content de ses dessins, lors même qu'ils avaient mérité les suffrages des connaisseurs. (As modest as he was skilful, he was never happy with his drawings, even when they had won the approval of connoisseurs.)
Nouns inflected like dessin
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Deverbal from desseigner, dessigner, dessiner (influenced by Italian disegno). Doublet of dessein and design. See: Italian Nouns '
disegno'.
Verbs referencing "dessin"
German Nouns
Design, Polish Nouns
deseń.
Translations