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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-euse, - a suffix occurring in loanwords from French, forming feminine nouns corresponding to nouns ending in -eur: chanteuse.
- Latin -ōsa, feminine of -ōsus -ose1 (French -eux); taken as feminine of -eur when this suffix had lost its final consonant (later restored) and was homonymous with -eux (hence, masculine -eu(r), feminine -euse, by analogy with -eux, -euse)
- French
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