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33 Cards in this Set
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un clin d'oeil |
a wink |
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une nappe |
a tablecloth; a layer; (figurative) blanket, patch |
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une escroquerie |
swindling, a hoax |
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une nuit blanche |
a sleepless night |
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une batterie de quelque chose |
a battery, an array of [something] |
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relancer |
to revive, rekindle; to throw again |
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un bond |
a leap, jump, bound |
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un vacarme |
a racket, din, row |
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un bredouillement |
mumbling, spluttering |
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bredouille (adj) |
empty-handed |
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un gland |
acorn; head of penis; (pejorative) moron, cretin |
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un croisillon |
spacer; cross-work |
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une soutache |
military decoration |
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un boudin |
blood sausage, chignon |
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une loutre |
otter, sea otter |
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rasseoir |
to sit down again; replace; put back |
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avertir |
to tell, inform |
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un cordon |
cord, string, lace |
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la broderie |
embroidery |
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cartonné (adj.), cartonner (v.) |
cardboard; to bind, to crash, (informal) smash, prang, to attack, to have sex with |
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renflé |
rounded, pot-bellied |
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la baleine |
whale, whalebone |
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le seuil |
threshold, doorstep, entrance |
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la poussière |
dust, dirt |
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un bilan |
an assessment |
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contourner |
bypass, skirt, circumvent |
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une méfiance, un soupçon |
mistrust, suspicion |
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une dégringolade |
fall, tumble, tumbling; fall from grace, comedown, humiliation, disgrace |
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background |
(area behind) un arrière-plan; (art) fond; (context) contexte |
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charnière (nf.), charnière (adj.) |
hinge (n.), transitional (adj.) |
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sitôt |
right away, immediately |
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en tant que |
as, in the capacity of, qua (academic/formal) |
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le recueillement |
recollection, mediation |
