meute

• IPA^(key): /mjuːt/

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• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: mute

meute (plural meutes)

1. A cage for hawks; a mew.
   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity‎^[1]:

     Many were held by lay abbots , who , by degrees , expelled the monks ; the cloisters became the camps of their retainers , the stables of their coursers , the kennels of their hounds , the meutes of their hawks.

• “meute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• mute e

From French meute.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmøː.tə/

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• Hyphenation: meu‧te

meute f (plural meuten or meutes)

1. pack, rout, crowd

Inherited from Middle French meute, from muete, from Latin *movita, feminine substantivization of Latin *movitus, 'vulgar' perfect passive participle for moveō (“move”).

• IPA^(key): /møt/

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meute f (plural meutes)

1. (hunting) pack (of hounds)
2. mob (of people)

   C'est la meute des honnêtes gens qui fait la chasse à l'enfant (Jacques Prévert)

• mutin
• ameuter

• → Dutch: meute
• → German: Meute

• “meute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• émeut