Meaning & use
enfant
The French word for child, occurring in English mainly within borrowed phrases such as enfant terrible.
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Critics called the young director an enfant terrible for breaking every rule of traditional cinema.
As a teenager, she was something of an enfant terrible in the world of competitive chess.
A note on using this word
Enfant rarely stands alone in English; it almost always appears inside a fixed French loanphrase such as enfant terrible.
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