lèche-vitrine
French
noun
Definitions
- (idiom) window-shopping
- (idiom) window-shopper
Etymology
Affix from French lèche (lick) + French fr (coffee, in, rivers, sugar, dreams, window)+ French lécher (lick)+ French vitrine (shop window, display case, display cabinet).
Origin
French
vitrine
Gloss
shop window, display case, display cabinet
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- vitrine English
- vitrum Latin
- Vitrine German
- vitrine Dutch, Flemish
- Trois-Rivières French
- attrape-rêves French
- caquenlit French
- chasse-café French
- croquembouche French
- fr French
- lèche French
- lèche-bottes French
- lèche-cul French
- léchage French
- lécher French
- lécheur French
- pomme frite French
- pomme purée French
- pousse-café French
- umpiste French
- vitre French
- vitrine French
- витри́на Russian
- vitrina Spanish, Castilian
- vitrine Portuguese
- vitrin Swedish
- witryna Polish
- vitrina Serbo-Croatian
- витрина Serbo-Croatian
- vitrină Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- βιτρίνα Greek (modern)
- vitrin Turkish
- *lekkon Frankish
- liché Louisiana Creole French