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Conges terminology question

141 months ago

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Arts / Entertainment
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	trépassé
Context:	Same text. I know it means "deceased" but fail to see the connection in this context, as (s)he goes
Keywords:	abroad. The friend jokingly refers to him/her as such after some persons' haughty mode of greeting

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141 months ago

wrote:

the departed (the deads)

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141 months ago

wrote:

The whole sentence in French please.

My comment:

There might be a play on words ( très passé or something of the kind), but I can't tell without further information.

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141 months ago

wrote:

This is when he arrived in England, where he was greeted by his male friends, while the female counterparts looked at him haughtily, questioningly, then the following:" Allons, mon cher trépassé," dit X en faisant asseoir Y à la place qui lui avait été réservée auprès de Z (a female), "signalez par un toast votre rentrée dans le monde des vivants."

141 months ago

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If I'm not mistaken, the man had faked his own death and his male friends laughed at him after he had blown his cover. The tone is ironical since it is a distortion of the phrase often engraved on war memorials or gravestones "à nos chers défunts/disparus". My idea of a play on words may not be so ludicrous since the person who is sneering at him probably thinks his days are over, he's a has-been (= très passé). If such is the case, I can't think of a suitable equivalent in English

141 months ago

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Thank you plaisirsdelavie. The problem is that it is not a typo, it definitely is Trépassé, not trés passé, as I asked and the answer was an unequivocal Trepassé. It was a female that had died, not a male, so did not imagine he himself had died

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141 months ago

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OK, one that wants to die...

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