noun, masculine/dœj/plural: deuils
bereavement; mourning; mourning (clothes); funeral procession
“deuil national” — national mourning
Alteration of Old French duel, plural dueus (possibly influenced by analogy to œil and its plural), which probably came from Late Latin dolus, a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”), or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *dolium, from cordolium.