malentendu
adjective
misunderstood; misapprehended.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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I don't know if all the malentendus were in French, but almost all the explanations were, and this didn't a bit prevent Brooksmith's following them.
From Some Short Stories [by Henry James] by Henry James