congé

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From what language have adieu and congé been adopted into English?

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

So saying, she turns from him, as though anxious to give him a gentle congé.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

"Anglice, Vaughan gets us good introductions, and makes Paris pleasant to us; we'll use him while we want him: when we don't, we will give him his congé."

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

Father will be furious when he knows that I've given Mr. Burroughs his congé, and you'll come into your fortune when you are twenty-one next June.

From A Man of Two Countries by Dowling, Colista M.

Direct nomination by the crown was substituted for the congé d'élire, and remained the practice till the reaction under Mary, when the indefinite system was resumed which had existed before the Reformation.

From History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by Froude, James Anthony