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crime passionnel
/ krim pɑsjɔnɛl /
noun
- a crime committed from passion, esp sexual passion Also calledcrime of passion
Word History and Origins
Origin of crime passionnel1
Example Sentences
And in Scenario C, I wouldn't remember anything and I probably wouldn't even have to go to prison because it would have been what the French call a crime passionnel.
The survivor's instinct could only have deepened as he saw his family cut down by firing squad and assassin: his younger brother Maximilian as Napoleon Ill's cat's paw in Mexico, his son Rudolf as a result of a crime passionnel suicide pact at Mayerling, his wife at Geneva, his nephew Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo.
Crime Does Not Pay is a film-within-a-film excursion into crime passionnel that pays off almost too generously with blood, plot and stars.
Chicago had its quick rub-out with the .45 slug rubbed in garlic, New York its cement-festooned body in the East River, Paris its crime passionnel.
Washington matrons avidly devoured each minute detail of this love-after-40 crime passionnel.
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