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de plain-pied
(phrase) at street level
de plain-pied avec
(phrase) "on the same page" with; (to act) in accordance with
eclaboussé(e)
(adj) smeared (by something nasty)
le congé
(n) vacation
le relent
(n) stench
narquois(e)
(adj) mocking (as in, a mocking tone)
chichement
(adv) cheaply, meanly, miserly
le volet
(n) shutter (for a window);
flap (of an airplane)
railler
(v trans) =bafouer (to scoff at)
tenir à
(v) to care (about), be fond (of)
stercoraire
(adj) feculent, "shitty" (Swann uses this
to decribe music that Odette likes)
épaissir
(v) to thicken, become thick, eg:
a jelly
a fog
Odette's waist
(s'en ficher) comme un poisson d'une pomme
(phrase) not to care a fig for s.t. or s.o.
se soucier de
(v) to care about (conjugated like "oublier")
de chair
(phrase) in the flesh
"son visage_____"
la lassitude
(n) weariness
à son gré
(phrase) as one likes or wishes (referring to one's actions)
déjoué(e)
(adj) twarted
"Mais, sa prudence fut _______"
le bond
(n) leap or bound (often with surprise)
l'aubépine
(n) hawthorn
(n) hawthorn
la mine
(n) facial expression
"Vous avez bonne____,"
("You're looking well.")
la meute
(n) pack (of valets)
pour des prunes
(phrase) for nothing
"Tu n'es pas Guermantes_________"
("You're not a Guermantes for nothing.")
causer
(v) =parler
Pourquoi en être triste?
(phrase) Why be sad about it?
Vous en doutez?
(phrase) You doubt it?
l'eventail
fan
la frime
(n) put-on or show
"C'est une_____."
("It's just a put-on.")
la laideur
ugliness
la bru
=belle-fille
ressentir
(v) to feel (an emotion)
être jolie à croquer
(phrase) to look pretty as a picture
(said of girls)
crier à tue-tête
(phrase) to scream one's head off
le genre
(n) type, kind
"Elle n'était pas mon____!"
reprisé(e)
(adj) mended
épars(e)
(adj) scattered (said of people)
ensevelir
(v) to bury (a body)
clapoter
(v trans) to lap up (a fluid)
l'étandue
expanse
(eg: "sur une_____de 16 Km;"
"_____d'eau")
s'offusquer de
(v) to take offense at
le papotage
(n) idle chatter
balbutier
(v) to babble (baby talk); stammer
hue!
(exclam) Giddy-up!
empêcher
to prevent
faire question de
(phrase) to ask about
"Et il ne___plus_____ __
Swann chez les Verdurin"
factice
(adj) artificial, false
"Le même ton, un peu _____."
se passer de
(v) to do without (s.o. or s.t.)
se mettre à
(v) to start to (do something)
"_____ à sangloter"
dispenser de faire quelque chose
(phrase) to excuse from doing something
songer à
(v) to think about
soudoyer
(v) to bribe
à l'écart
(phrase) on the sidelines
être à l'écart
to be isolated
s'enhardisser
to become bolder
la prunelle
(n) pupil (of an eye); the eye itself
le carreau(-x)
(n) anything with a square shape
eg: a window pane, a tile, a diamond (in cards)
à carreaux
(adj phrase) checked, checkered (eg: clothes)
simuler
(v) to feign
la terminaison
(n) ending
la dépêche
(n) dispatch, message

la narine

(n) nostril

(n) nostril

déplaire à

(v) displease (s.o.)

éclabousser

(v) splash

l'action

(nf) stock

outrageant(e)

(adj) offensive

l'entremetteuse

(n) procuress

(n) procuress

assommant(e)

= ennuyeux(-se)

approuver

= être d'accord avec

voici que

= il y a que

se compléter

(vr) to complement one another

la grossièreté

(n) rudeness, coarseness

réjouir

(v) delight (s.o.)

le commérage

(n) idle talk, gossip

la bassesse

(n) baseness

le crochet

(n) hook

le tiroir

(n) drawer

déjouer

(v) thwart, elude

redevenir

(v) become once more


(passé composé uses être)

picorer

(v) pick at one's food like a bird

éclore

(v) open like a flower