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noun, masculine

bélître

/be.litʁ/

noun, masculine/be.litʁ/plural: bélîtres

a worthless person; a rascal; a beggar

Inherited from Middle French bellitre, belistre, belleudre, from Middle Dutch bedelster, bedelare (“beggar”), from bedelen (“to beg”), from Old Dutch *bedulon, from Proto-West Germanic *bedulōn.