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- noun An
infatuation orfancy .
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Colloquial French béguin ("bonnet"). The verb s’embéguiner ‘to wear a bonnet’ came to mean ‘to have a crush on someone’. The word itself came from béguine ‘beguine’ (lay nuns who typically wore such bonnets).
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