dégringolade
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Etymology
Origin of dégringolade
First recorded in 1880–85; literally “a quick deterioration,” from dégringoler “to tumble down” + -ade 1
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Months later came the dégringolade, when sterling was driven out of the European exchange rate mechanism.
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2012
But the phlegmatic Englishman won't lead in that dégringolade.'
From The Convert by Robins, Elizabeth
How perfectly true to life, subsequently, is the rapid dégringolade of this passion under the gnawing curse of the homeless, workless, purposeless existence which little by little disunites the lovers!
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
The news from Europe is to my ignorant ideas désolant, a dégringolade back into military despotism, which would have excited indignation with us in our fathers’ days, I think.
From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet
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