coup
/ku/ nom C1En français : coup d'État, coup, exploit
- A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
- Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery.
- A coup d'état.
- A takeover of one group by another.
- A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
- One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
Pluriel coups
Dans la bibliothèque
It is a matter of history—that secret history of a nation which is often so much more intimate and interesting than its public chronicles—that Oberstein, eager to complete the coup of his lifetime, came to the lure and was safely engulfed for fifteen years in a British prison.
It would have been a coup-de-maître had he deduced what I would deduce and acted accordingly.”
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