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A coup d'état (/ ˌ k uː d eɪ ˈ t ɑː / ⓘ; French: [ku deta] ⓘ; lit. ' stroke of state ' ), [ 1 ] or simply a coup , is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership .
In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
The 28 May 1926 coup d'état, sometimes called 28 May Revolution or, during the period of the corporatist Estado Novo (English: New State), the National Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução Nacional), was a military coup of a nationalist origin, that put an end to the unstable Portuguese First Republic and initiated 48 years of corporatist and nationalist rule within Portugal.
"Coup d'Etat" is a song recorded by South Korean rapper G-Dragon featuring American DJs Diplo and Baauer, who also served as co-producer. Released through YG Entertainment on September 2, 2013, it served as the second single to his album of the same name .
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Speakers of non-rhotic accents, as in much of Australia, England, New Zealand, and Wales, will pronounce the second syllable [fəd], those with the father–bother merger, as in much of the US and Canada, will pronounce the first syllable [ˈɑːks], and those with the cot–caught merger but without the father–bother merger, as in Scotland ...
In Catalan, French, Italian, Ligurian, and Occitan word sequences such as (coup) d'état, (maître) d'hôtel (often shortened to maître d ', when used in English), L'Aquila, L'Alpe d'Huez and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat the final vowel in the first word (de 'of', le 'the', etc.) is elided because the word that follows it starts with a vowel or a ...
Coup D'etat (band), a New Zealand rock band from the early 1980s and their self-titled sole album; Coup d'Etat (Plasmatics album), a 1982 album by Plasmatics; Coup d'etat (Muslimgauze album), a 1987 album by Muslimgauze; Coup d'Etat (G-Dragon album), a 2013 album by G-Dragon Coup d'Etat (song) "Coup d'Etat", a song by Level 42 on the album ...