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au reservoir en · INTJ

Etymology

Humorous alteration of au revoir after reservoir.

Meanings

  1. (humorous) Au revoir.
    • They could be heard shouting jocosely to one another across the street: "Bon sewer, monsewer!" "Au reservoir!" Jack thought. 1917, McClure's Magazine ..., volume 50, S. S. McClure, Limited:
    • "Let her go, Gallagher. I've got everything on skids, even the presses. Au revoir—or perhaps one should say, Au reservoir." 1914, Francis Lynde, The City of Numbered Days, Scribner's, page 330:
    • “Adieu-au reservoir” (as an ambitious artist once remarked) 1855, A Month at Malvern under the Water-cure. With the sequel, etc. Third edition. Reconsidered, rewritten: