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Can't forget about the 80s pop group The Flirts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro7zJAvBWvI

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I don't know it it's just this guy (Michel Delpech) or the French in general, but back in '72, he had a song hit with "Pour un Flirt." (For a flirt with you.) My wife listens to French popular music from the old days on several Apple Music "stations." If you wish, you can scroll the lyrics as the song plays. I learn a lot of French that way.

I had noticed the song, because even in French it's clear that he doesn't mean "flirt" in the English sense. I had to use Google Translate because my French is still not very good, but here's a couple of passages:

For a flirt

With you

I would be ready for anything

For a simple rendezvous

For a flirt

With you

For

A little tour

One little day

In your arms

For

A little tour

At daybreak

Between your sheets

I could damn myself

For a single stolen kiss

For a flirt

With you

I would make love

To cuddle you a little

For a flirt

With you

I would do crazy things

To get to your bed

For a flirt

With you

......

I rest my case.

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Interesting! In my 2021 post about “flirt” I mentioned a theory that the English word comes from “an Old French verb, fleureter (‘to talk sweet nonsense’ or ‘to touch a thing in passing’—a flower, say). If so, English has repaid the debt: the French have borrowed flirter (‘to flirt’) since the 19th century.”

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