zéphirine
French, noun\ze.fi.ʁin\
zéphirine is spelled Z-É-P-H-I-R-I-N-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zéphirine is a French feminine noun meaning “a type of coloured fabric once made on Saint-Quentin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Étoffe de couleur qui était fabriquée, entre autres lieux, à Saint-Quentin”.
What does zéphirine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea type of coloured fabric once made on Saint-Quentin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Étoffe de couleur qui était fabriquée, entre autres lieux, à Saint-Quentin.
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 zéphirine
- zéphirines plural
- zéphyrine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce zéphirine?
- \ze.fi.ʁin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is zéphirine in French?
zéphirine appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).