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promener

/pʁɔm.ne/

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verb/pʁɔm.ne/

to walk (leisurely), to go for a walk, to stroll; to walk out (an animal); to carry around, often with the implication of showing off

1869, Charles Beaudelaire, "Perte d'auréole", Petits Poëmes en prose; translated 2009 by Keith WaldropNow I can stroll about incognito, do mean things, launch into debauches, like ordinary mortals.

From a metathesis of Middle French pourmener, Old French pourmener, pormener (based on numerous verbs beginning with the prefix pro-), itself from pour- and mener; alternatively and less likely corresponds to a Vulgar Latin *prōmināre (“to drive forward”), from prō (“forward”) + minō (“to drive”).