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Please show me example sentences with éculé . Tell me as many daily expressions as possible.
Please show me example sentences with éculé . Tell me as many daily expressions as possible.
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Par exemple...
Malheur au petit qui contractait la mauvaise habitude d'éculer, de déchirer ses souliers, ou d'user prématurément leurs semelles (Balzac, Louis Lambert 1832)
En 1832, le mot bousingot faisait l'intérim entre le mot jacobin qui était éculé, et le mot démagogue alors presque inusité et qui a fait depuis un si excellent service.(Hugo, Les Misérables 1862)
Ce n'est jamais qu'un vieux texte éculé, rabâché depuis l'aube du monde, par des bouches aujourd'hui sans dents (Anouilh, La répétions ou l'amour puni, 1950)
Éculé est rarement employé de nos jours, il me semble, et presque exclusivement dans son sens figuré plutôt que dans son sens originel de chaussures à la semelle trouée pour décrire de façon négative des thèmes de romans, des théories économies ou politiques:
Quoi de plus éculé que le thème des jeunes dans les cités de banlieue ?
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