égllise
Norman
Etymology
From Old French eglise, from Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “gathering”).
Noun
égllise f (plural égllises)
- (France, Guernsey) church
- 1883, George Métivier, ‘L'Nèr Cotillon d'Mussieu l'Curaï’, Patois Poems of the Channel Islands:
- D'l'égllise, ùn sèr, nou-z en r'venànt, / Chacùn souriait, parlafràndine [...].
- One evening we were coming home from church, everyone smiling and happy.
- 2006, Marie de Garis, ‘Enne p'tite ôlure’, P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press 2006, p. 24:
- Ch'tait tànt mux qu'a counnissait son ch'min, pasqué oprès qu'all'avait passaïr l’éghise et rentrï dans les p'tites rues pour ciz ielle, a'n veyait goute.
- It was just as well that she knew her way, because after she had passed the church and entered the narrow lanes to her house, she couldn't see a thing.
- 1883, George Métivier, ‘L'Nèr Cotillon d'Mussieu l'Curaï’, Patois Poems of the Channel Islands:
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