French leave
[french leev]
/ ˈfrɛntʃ ˈliv /
NOUN
(offensive) abrupt departure
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How Simplicissimus took french leave and how he was terrified by dead trees Chap. vi.:
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von
