c'est-à-dire

American  

[se-ta-deer] / sɛ taˈdir /

French.

1. that is to say.

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c'est-à-dire

As a specimen of his skill, I asked him if an extra horse could be had at Einsiedeln, and his answer was, "Par exemple, monsieur; par exemple, oui; c'est-à-dire, par exemple."

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore