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appel du vide

noun, masculineplural: appels du vide

a sudden impulse to fall or jump from a height; an attack of vertigo; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see appel, du, vide.

1970, Gilbert La Rocque, Le Nombril (Montréal : Éditions du jour) p. 33(please add an English translation of this quotation)