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pécheur, pécheresse

le pécheur, la pécheresse (FR N-M OR -F) person in a state of sin, or who commits habitually serious sins. First appears in French in the 12th century, (1130) feminine form pecheris, (980) pechedor, from Latin peccador, peccare (to sin). (Villon)

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