e/Pure laine

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has glosseng: The French term pure laine (also mistakenly rendered in English as pur laine), literally meaning pure wool (and often interpreted as true blue or dyed-in-the-wool), is a politically and culturally charged phrase referring to the people having original ancestry of the French-Canadians. Another similar term is de souche (roughly in English, old stock).
lexicalizationeng: pure laine
instance of(noun) a word or phrase borrowed from French
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