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Flaute

Flaute

See also: flaute

German

Noun

Flaute f (genitive Flaute, plural Flauten)

  1. calm (period free from wind)
  2. slack, slack period
    • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 49/2010, page 80:
      Nach dreijähriger Flaute werden in Deutschland erstmals wieder deutlich mehr Wohnungen und Häuser gebaut.
      After a slack period lasting three years, for the first time there are significantly more apartments and houses constructed again in Germany.

Declension

flaute

flaute

See also: Flaute

Interlingue

Noun

flaute

  1. flute

Old French

Noun

flaute f (oblique plural flautes, nominative singular flaute, nominative plural flautes)

  1. Alternative form of fleüte