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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An informal, unannounced, or abrupt departure.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A sudden or unannounced departure, or one taken without permission.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts.
  2. n. See under French.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an abrupt and unannounced departure (without saying farewell)

Etymologies

  1. From the 18th-century French custom of leaving without saying goodbye to the host or hostess. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. going
  1. going away
  1. departure
  1. leaving

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. p. p.
  1. congé
  1. to walk one's chalks

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