Provençal proverb

Es ana fuma lei mauvo.

Medicine and Doctors

Maritime Provençal

Es ana fuma lei mauvo.

Meaning

He has gone to smoke the mallows.

Note : Said of someone who has died; the mallow grows in cemeteries.

Theme

Medicine and Doctors

Source : La Tour-Keyrié, Recueil de proverbes provençaux (1882), Gallica — public domain. Maritime Mistralian normalisation by Lingua Nostra.

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