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‖ soupirant|supirɑ̃|
[Fr., = sighing (lover), pres. pple. of soupirer to sigh.]
A male admirer, a suitor.
1849Thackeray Pendennis I. x. 93 And is Sir Derby Oaks..another soupirant?.. Another admirer of Miss Fotheringay? 1969J. Fowles French Lieutenant's Woman lxi. 443 But he no sooner saw that than he saw the reality of such an arrangement—how he would become the secret butt of this corrupt house, the starched soupirant, the pet donkey. |