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retrouvailles

ruh-troo-VIE[ʁətʁuvɑj]

Pronunciation: Speaker: Roptat Recorder: Roptat · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

the joy of finding each other again after long apart — a reunion

Closest in English: reunion, reunions, reuniting. None of them covers it.

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The story

French builds it on retrouver, to find again, and uses it only in the plural, as though one such moment could never arrive alone. It is the arrivals-gate scene: the hug, then the step back to look properly. English names the occasion a reunion; this word names the joy inside it.

How it went in the game

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  1. Which language is it from?French
  2. Which feeling does it carry?Joy that comes with a return
  3. Where would you hear it?Arrivals at the airport, flowers in hand
  4. What does it mean?The joy of meeting again after years

How it went

One of the easier words so far.

Round two, feeling, was where most points went.

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