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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| calque |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k lk |
| NOUN: | See loan translation. |
| ETYMOLOGY: | French, from calquer, to trace, copy, from Italian calcare, to press, from Latin calc re, to tread on, from calx, heel.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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