verboten

adjective /ˌvəˈbəʊtn̩/

1. (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.

   Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring).

Where it comes from

Unadapted borrowing from German verboten (“banned, forbidden, prohibited”). Doublet of forbidden.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry verboten (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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