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bizarrerie

oddity

noun bee-zah-ruh-REE Rare
Descriptions & Qualities Personality

Also means

quirk

Usage Note

Une bizarrerie is an unusual or eccentric quality, behavior, or thing — les bizarreries de la langue (the quirks of the language), une bizarrerie de caractère (a character oddity). It derives from bizarre (strange, odd), itself borrowed from Spanish or Portuguese bizarro (brave, then strange). The related verb bizarrer does not exist; use être bizarre or paraître bizarre instead.

Examples

"Cette règle est une vraie bizarrerie."

Natural Translation

This rule is a real quirk.

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