enfant de coeur

== English == === Alternative forms === enfant de cœur === Etymology === Borrowed from French enfant de chœur. === Noun === enfant de coeur (plural enfants de coeur) (obsolete) A child who sings in a choir, typically quiet and well-behaved. 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page #88: "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia. ==== Synonyms ==== chorister choirboy