manqué

Etymology
Existing in English from the eighteenth century. Borrowed from, past participle form of.

Adjective

 * 1)  Unfulfilled due to the vagary of circumstance, some inherent flaw or a constitutional lack.

Usage notes

 * This adjective usually retains many grammatical features from French, used postpositively and taking the forms when modifying a feminine noun,  for a plural noun, and  for a feminine plural noun; as such, it is consciously regarded as a French term amidst English ones, and so occurs disproportionately more often in French contexts.
 * Like most words which are spelled with diacritics, is sometimes written without its acute accent as.

Adjective

 * 1) missed; failed