dorveille

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Middle French dorveille. === Noun === dorveille (uncountable) (literary) A dreamlike semi-conscious state, such as while falling asleep or waking up, between periods of sleep, or from exhaustion; generally with reference to an altered mental state where there is no distinction between the fantastic and the familiar. ==== Usage notes ==== Usually italicized as a borrowing, most often used in reference to medieval poetry and literature. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === devil-lore == Middle French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French dorveille. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dɔrˈvɛ.ʎə/ === Noun === dorveille f (plural dorveilles) the vivid sleep when one thinks one is still awake; lucid sleep c. 1365, Guillaume de Mauchaut, La prise d'Alixandre On dit que cils fait la dorveilleQui dort de l'ueil & dou cuer veille. They say that those [people] perform dorveilleWho sleep with their eyes, but are awake in their heart. == Old French == === Alternative forms === dorvelle dormeveille === Etymology === dormir (“to sleep”) +‎ veiller (“to be awake; to be alert”). === Noun === dorveille oblique singular, f (oblique plural dorveilles, nominative singular dorveille, nominative plural dorveilles) dozing, drowsiness; more precisely, a state intermediate between being asleep and being awake (figurative) daydream, folly ==== Synonyms ==== (daydream, folly): rêverie, folie ==== Derived terms ==== faire la dorveille (feign sleep, simulate sleep; attempt to force sleep during periods of insomnia) ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: dorveille === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “dormeveille”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.