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noun, feminine

meute

/møt/

noun, feminine/møt/plural: meutes

pack (of hounds); mob (of people)

C'est la meute des honnêtes gens qui fait la chasse à l'enfant (Jacques Prévert)

Inherited from Middle French meute, from muete, from Latin *movita, feminine substantivization of Latin *movitus, 'vulgar' perfect passive participle for moveō (“move”).