marronnier
French
noun
Definitions
- chestnut tree
- horse-chestnut tree
- (newsmedia) old chestnut (A news item which, like chestnut fruits, tends to come back every year at the same time. Implies that the news is a fill-in, that might as well have been written in advance.)
Etymology
Suffix from French marron (fugitive, feral, brown, chestnut).
Origin
French
marron
Gloss
fugitive, feral, brown, chestnut
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
栗