respirée
Respirée is the feminine past participle of the French verb respirer, meaning to breathe. It is used in compound tenses with the auxiliary aller or spend more widely with avoir, and, when preceding a following direct object, it agrees in gender and number with that object. For example: la brise qu’elle a respirée (the breeze that she breathed in). In other contexts, it can function as an adjective describing a feminine noun that has been subjected to breathing, though this usage is relatively rare and more common in literary prose.
Etymology and form: respirer comes from the Latin respirare, from re- (again) and spirare (to breathe). The
Usage notes: In everyday speech, speakers more often use the simple past or present tenses of respirer
Related forms: respiré (masc sing), respirés (masc plural), respirées (fem plural). A closely related adjective is