droit
Americannoun
plural
droits-
a legal right or claim.
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Finance, Rare. droits, customs duties.
noun
Etymology
Origin of droit
1470–80; < French < Late Latin dīrēctum legal right, law (noun use of neuter of Latin dīrēctus direct )
Example Sentences
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In France, they call it “le droit à la déconnexion.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
In fact, strictly speaking, the droit du sol is not an automatic right in France, as it is for example in the US where a birth certificate is enough to get a passport.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024
“It’s about what the French call droit moral,” he says in a recent interview from his home in Los Angeles.
From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2020
So I could not have been more thrilled when #MeToo ripped away the curtain on the murky transgressions and diminishments that women had endured in the droit du seigneur era.
From New York Times • May 2, 2020
En cel an qu’ai dist or endroit, Et ne sait a tort ou a droit, Furent li Templiers, sans doutance, Tous pris par le royaume de France.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.
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