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maquereau

/ma.kʁo/

noun, masculine/ma.kʁo/plural: maquereaux

mackerel

Related: groseille à maquereau

Inherited from Middle French macquereau, maquereau, maquerel, from Old French maquerel, of uncertain origin.

noun, masculine/ma.kʁo/plural: maquereaux

pimp

Synonyms: mac, proxénète

Inherited from Middle French macquereau, maquereau, maqueriau, from Old French makerele, maquereau, from Middle Dutch makelaer, makelare (“broker”), itself from Old Frisian mek (“to marry”), from maken (“to make”), from Proto-West Germanic *makōn.