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‖ fou rire|fu rir|
[Fr., lit. ‘mad laughter’.]
(A fit of) wild or uncontrollable laughter.
[1897P. G. Hamerton Autobiogr. vii. 51 The eldest boy in our class was liable to fits of perfectly uncontrollable laughter (what the French call le fou rire).] 1914R. Brooke Let. 3 Sept. (1968) 613 Murmurs of subdued applause from me. Eddie [Marsh] had a fou rire. 1919G. Saintsbury Hist. Fr. Novel II. iv. 137 But I own that an access of fou rire once came upon me when I was told in a printed page that La Chartreuse de Parme was a ‘very lively and very amusing book’. 1924M. MacCarthy Nineteenth-Cent. Childhood vii. 75 Adela and I exchange glances... We recover quickly from our hidden fou-rire. 1963P. H. Johnson Night & Silence xxvi. 194 Halfway up the stairs she..fell into a fou rire. |