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A Writer's Dictionary:

manque Definition


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adj
    1. literary
      Applied to a specified kind of person: having once had the ambition or potential to be that kind of person, without achieving it; unfulfilled.
      Example: an artist manqué
Etymology: 18c: French, meaning ‘having missed'.



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