Quebec French profanity
Quebec French profanities, known as sacres (singular: sacre; French: sacrer, "to consecrate"), are words and expressions related to Catholicism and its liturgy that are used as strong profanities in Quebec French, (the main variety of Canadian French and, to a lesser degree, in Acadian French spoken in Maritime Provinces east of Quebec). Sacres are considered stronger than the foul expressions common to standard French which centre on sex and excrement (such as merde, "shit"). For other French speakers, sacres may have no meaning.
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