délavé
French, adjective
délavé is spelled D-É-L-A-V-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 57,843rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Délavé is a French adjective meaning “faded, washed-out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of délaver. With an accent, délave is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualifie une couleur faible et blafarde”.
What does délavé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
faded, washed-out
verb
- 1
past participle of délaver
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qualifie une couleur faible et blafarde. 2. Qualifie un vêtement dont on a affaibli la couleur. 3. Qualifie un foin qui a été exposé à la pluie ou à des rosées abondantes pendant la fenaison. 4. Qualifie une pierre dont la couleur est faible.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of délavé
- délavée feminine
- délavés masculine plural
- délavées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to délavé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is délavé in French?
délavé appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).