English
gaieté de cœur
Gaieté de cœur comes from French gaieté de cœur ‘lightheartedness, cheerfulness, high spirits’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgaieté de cœur‘lightheartedness, cheerfulness, high spirits’
- Englishearliest quotation 1751same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgaieté de cœur‘lightheartedness, cheerfulness, high spirits’
- Englishearliest quotation 1751same form
Earliest quotation: 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […]: “Meanwhile, he […] attended me in all my excursions,…”
Every English word from French gaieté de cœur
Today it means
noun Lightheartedness; playfulness.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French gaieté de cœur / gaieté de cœur