au fond

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  1. At bottom; essentially. Petrarch was timid. Laura was a woman of sense, and yet, like all women, au fond, a coquette. C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, p. 9.

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  1. French: au, at the (see au); fond, bottom: see fund.
 

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