# peu à peu

peu à peu is a German adverb meaning “bit by bit”.

## In other languages

- Русский: мало-помалу

## Meanings

1. _archaic_ bit by bit, little by little
   - […] und wie nachgehends in folgenden seculis das volck peu a peu excludiret, und die electio von den Canonicis an sich gezogen worden. — […] and how thereafter in the following generations little by little the common people would be exlcuded, and the elections would come under the sway of the clergy.

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