trouvaille means A lucky find, a windfall. It carries an Arena rating of 1837, earned across 25 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, trouvaille ranks #420 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #1,199 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #1,306 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #4,176 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
trouvaille is pronounced /tɹuˈvaɪ/.
Why “trouvaille” is a great word
A valuable or delightful discovery made by chance; a lucky find. Borrowed from French trouvaille, from the verb trouver ("to find"), from Old French trover, of uncertain ultimate origin, possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *tropāre ("to compose, invent"). Unlike a "windfall," which speaks of impersonal fortune, or a neutral "discovery," which merely notes the act of finding, a trouvaille is a small encounter suffused with the charm of serendipity itself. It is the perfect, sun-bleached seashell waiting in the wet sand, the long-out-of-print novel found for a coin at a flea market, the forgotten packet of wildflower seeds at the back of a drawer that blooms into a memory—the universe briefly parting its fingers to let a single treasure slip into your hand.
Etymology
Borrowed from French trouvaille.
noun
- A lucky find, a windfall.
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