Thread: What do you think of the name "liseuse?"
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Old 09-27-2009, 05:12 AM   #212
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Originally Posted by booksonthemove View Post
I thought that la liseuse means "the reader" as in someone who reads, rather than a reading device...
A woman who reads is une lectrice. Liseuse is a kind of desk or a piece of cloth. Both usages are a bit out-of-date, like ordinateur (today a computer, before a religious man) fifty years ago
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