Though we still don't know if our loan has been approved, or if our home will be mortgaged, Jean-Marc has gone ahead with the plans for his wine cellar. hypothèque (ee-poh-tek) noun, feminine  mortgage Une dette flottante est un navire hypothèque.A floating debt is a mortgaged vessel. –Jean-Charles (French humorist). At the Crédit Agricole bank I tugged on the perfect green leaf of a benjamin … Continue reading hypothèque