postillon – French noun declension

French noun forms of postillon

Noun: postillon
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mpostillon
Plural mpostillons

Sample Sentences

  • Et leur haleine avinée quand ils me parlaient et couvraient mon visage de postillons, comme peuvent le faire des hommes ivres, des hommes qui, chaque fois, sans presque jamais déroger à la règle, finissaient par exprimer leur haine des homosexuels. (And the smell of drink on their breath when they spoke to me and covered my face in spittle, as drunk men often do; men who, every time, almost without fail, end up expressing their hatred of homosexuals.) [2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:]

Etymology

From Italian postiglione.

Verbs referencing "postillon"

Romanian Nouns postilion, Finnish Nouns postiljooni, German Nouns Postillion, Russian Nouns почтальон, Romanian Nouns poștalion, Polish Nouns pocztylion.

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