tutu

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931)
noun very short skirt worn by ballerinas

Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”).

For they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus. — Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Jonathan Swift
44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, tutu, pointed hat!] — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
Comment? Rich booty you brought back; Le Tutu, five tattered numbers of Pantalon Blanc et Culotte Rouge; a blue French telegram, curiosity to show: —Mother dying come home father. — Ulysses, James Joyce

Desmond Tutu

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