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dernier(e)

(le, la) dernier(e) (FR ADJ OR N-M- F) last, coming after all others; at the extremity of some quality. First appears in French in the 12th century spelled derrenier, from OF derrain, Latin deretranus, de retro (behind). (Banville, Baudelaire, Desnos, Eluard, Klingsor, Mirmont, Samain, van Lerberghe, Verlaine, Vilmorin)

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