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Faux pas

//fəʊ pɑː// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An embarrassing or tactless blunder.

    "Now my dear Lady Teazle if you but once make a trifling Faux Pas you can't conceive how cautious you would grow, and how ready to humour and agree with your Husband."

  2. 2
    a socially awkward or tactless act wordnet

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French faux pas (“faux pas, blunder; misstep, false step”).

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