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Chiaura (f)

(with) definite article: ? [la?]

Name in the Vivaro-Alpine dialect; Pronounced as "tsiowra"; NB¹: According to Hervé Quesnel, "chiaura is pejorative, from Yssingeaux to Cros-de-Géorand (Ardèche), for the animal, and even more so, when addressed to a woman or a young girl"; NB²: ➺ related terms.


Sources

Perre, Didier: Eléments de vocabulaire. In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.91, 93 (»Quesnel).

Web

NB: ➺ Google books (Didier Perre, Pierre Bec, Hervé Quesnel, [&] Jean-René Mestre: »La chanson occitane en Velay du XIIe siècle à nos jours« (2003)).