Écossaise
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French
Alternative forms
Noun
Écossaise f (plural Écossaises)
- female equivalent of Écossais; Scotswoman
Usage notes
- In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.
Further reading
- “Écossaise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.