famille

/ famij /

noun

1. a type of Chinese porcelain characterized either by a design on a background of yellow ( famille jaune ) or black ( famille noire ) or by a design in which the predominant colour is pink ( famille rose ) or green ( famille verte )

Word History and Origins

Origin of famille¹

C19: literally: family

Example Sentences

He compared the situation to the French expression “J’ai une grande famille,” or “I’m from a big family.”

From Literature

“There are other kids, too, but the other ones are teenagers. We are what we call in French famille recomposée — it means a family where you have kids from different families.”

From Los Angeles Times

Ruby is played by Emilia Jones, the British star of Netflix's Locke & Key, but unlike the original French film Coda is based on, La Famille Bélier, the cast who play the other Rossi family members are all deaf.

From BBC

The film, written and directed by Sian Heder and adapted from the 2014 French-language film “La Famille Bélier,” premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

From Los Angeles Times

The film was directly based on "La Famille Bélier," a 2014 French comedy that not only featured zero deaf actors in the deaf roles, but used deafness as the punch lines for many of its jokes.

From Salon