All 3 Uses
adieu
in
The Taming of the Shrew
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- Father, and wife, and gentlemen, adieu.†
Scene 2.1 *adieu = goodbye
- Adieu, good neighbour.†
Scene 2.1
- I cannot tarry: I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit; and so may you, sir; and so adieu, sir.†
Scene 4.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(adieu) a farewell remark (an alternative to goodbye)Adieu is typically more formal than bye. It comes from the French, à Dieu which literally means "to God" — as in I entrust you to God's care.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)