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Gauche is the French for "left" - and in the olden days anyone left-handed was seen as strange, and slightly threatening.
It is no coincidence that the Latin for left is sinister....
Left-handed people have fought a long battle to be allowed to remain that way. It used to earn a beating when I was in school if you wrote with your left hand.
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What is the etymology of gauche?
(left) in french
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gauche
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A sentence using the word gauche?
Their exquisite manner always make me feel gauche. I think this will help. :)
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