Ce mardi 17 mai, Dounia Coesens est à l’affiche de la série La doc et le veto, diffusée sur France 3. La veille du tournage, la comédienne a été victime d’une chute qui a demandé quelques ajustements ...
Gala: Dounia Coesens (La doc et le véto) : pourquoi le tournage a tourné au drame
Dounia Coesens (La doc et le véto) : pourquoi le tournage a tourné au drame
Due to its unusual Francophonic spelling, many people misspell lieu (which appears most often in the phrase in lieu of) as loo or lue. We even have evidence for people assuming the phrase is inlu of. It is, in fact, in lieu of. Lieu as a standalone noun means “place” and it’s now archaic.
To be in lieu of something is to replace it or substitute for it. A restaurant that's run out of clams might serve French onion soup in lieu of chowder. The word lieu originally comes from the Latin locus, meaning "place," and its meaning has stayed true to its origins ever since.
For many speakers "lieu" and "loo" are now homophones. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of lieu?
Definition of lieu noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
lieu (ljuː; luː) n stead; place (esp in the phrases in lieu, in lieu of) [C13: from Old French, ultimately from Latin locus place]