Drôle de drupe

Abstract

The many uses of the word « abricot » in French call for a step by step study which this text endeavours to carry out. It successively reviews the fruit itself (a drupe), the « secondary » colour, its slang use when referring to the vagina and the biblical symbol per se. It aims at being a contribution to the continual revisiting of such notions as lexical drive – « motif » in French – analogy, figural process, as well as being an attempt to reconsider the positioning of boundaries between lexicon, encyclopedia, poetic and litarary writing.

Keywords

• apricot
• colour
• myth
• classificatory profile
• initial drive