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Faux pas

2 stages from French to English.

Today it means an embarrassing or tactless social mistake
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Stage 1 of 2
faux pas
French · 1600s
"a false step"
literally a false step, a misstep
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Stage 2 of 2
faux pas
English · 1670s
"an embarrassing social mistake"
adopted directly for an embarrassing social mistake
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