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la quête

(n) quest




[1]
la tanière
(n) hideaway (of a person), lair (of an animal)
(n) hideaway (of a person), lair (of an animal)



[3]
seller
(v) to saddle (a horse) [4]
(v) to saddle (a horse)



[4]
le tournoi
(n) tournament [5]
(n) tournament



[5]
tricher
(v) to cheat
(v) to cheat



[5]
le bavard
(n) chatterbox
(n) chatterbox



[5]
la charpente
(n) framework; also build (of a person)
(n) framework; also build (of a person)



[5]
la glaive
(n) poleaxe, also a two-edged sword
(n) poleaxe, also a two-edged sword



[5]
l'intendant(e)
(n) superintendant or manager



[5]
la fourche
(n) pitchfork
(n) pitchfork



[6]
la Faucheuse
(n) Grim Reaper (also the name that Bragon gives his axe)
(n) Grim Reaper (also the name that Bragon gives his axe)



[7]
le cuir bouilli
(n) leather hardened by boiling and used for leather armor [7]
(n) leather hardened by boiling and used for leather armor



[7]
le jupon
(n) petticoat
(n) petticoat


[7]
le croc
(n) fang [12]
(n) fang



[12]
les bestiaux
(n pl) livestock
(n pl) livestock



[12]
enrager
(v) to be furious



("Mara se moque de moi ! J'_______ !"




[12]
le sortilège
(n) sorcery



[12]
le jouvenceau
(n) youth, adolescent (archaeic)



[12]
vain(e)
(adj) empty


("La gloire, comme l'amour, es_____e si elle n'est pas entretenue..."




[16]
entretenu(e)
(adj) well-kept, looked after
(as in love or glory)



[16]
"Il n'y a pas de 'je' qui tienne, fai-néant!"
"Don't talk back you do-nothing!"



[17]
la bosse
(n) bump (eg, on the head);
also a hump of a camel



[18]
foin de
(phrase) =pas de



("Pour ce genre de distraction, je n'ai pas besoin d'une gamine ! _____ ___ pucelle !")




[18]
la pucelle
(n) maid, virgin
(n) maid, virgin



[18]
le gringalet
(n) a runt, puny little person or thing
(n) a runt, puny little person or thing



[22]
l'écume
(nf) foam, scum [22]
(nf) foam, scum



[22]
la poignée
(n) handful or fistful; door handle



[22]
le coup de semonce
(n phrase) warning shot
(n phrase) warning shot



[22]
la foudre
(n) lightning



[22]
le brimborion
(n) a thing of very little or no value

a bastardised form of the Latin breviarium (breviary), the service book used by priests. Randall Cotgrave wrote in his French-English dictionary of 1611 that the word came to mean “foolish charms or superstitious prayers, used by old and simple women against the toothache, and any such threadbare and musty rags of blind devotion”, hence something valueless.



[22]
le ver
(n) worm, maggot



[22]
le vantard
(n) boaster, boastful person
(n) boaster, boastful person



[22]
le sucrerie
(n) a sweet, with sugar as chief ingredient
(n) a sweet, with sugar as chief ingredient



[23]
l'hameçon
(nm) fishhook



[23]
la disette
(n) food shortage, less severe than "famine"



[27]
le rustaud
(n) a churl, a crass, vulgar person
(n) a churl, a crass, vulgar person



[31]
pendard
(adj) lit. worthy to be hanged, i.e. dishonest, rascally
(adj) lit. worthy to be hanged,
i.e. dishonest, rascally



[31]
pulpeux
(adj, masc) full (as in eyelids)
cogner
(v) to knock, beat with a fist
(v) to knock, beat with a fist
[32]

taquiner

(v) tease, rib




[33]

le tendron

(n) a young girl, pretty, but not ready for love


[33]
dénicher
(v) =trouver; to dig up, scare up



[34]

l'énergumène

(n) suspicious-looking person




[34]
pulpeuse
(adj, fem) curvacious, voluptuous (said of women); also "juicy"
(adj, fem) curvacious, voluptuous
(said of women); also "juicy"



[36]
taper
(v) to slap, beat



[37]
rouquin(e)
(adj) ginger-haired, red-headed
(adj) ginger-haired, red-headed

[37]

la conque

(n) conch shell




[41]

l'issue

(nf) = sortie




[42]

la curée

(n) feeding frenzy "the kill"




[43]

Attrape ça !

Catch!




[43]

Gueule d'amour

(n phrase) lady-killer


[43]
enfoncer
(v) to drive in (a nail),
to stick in (a knife)
la chair
flesh



[5]
la carne
tough, poor quality meat; an old nag or also a funky despicable person
friper
(v) to crumple
accourir à
(v) to rush up to
étouffer
to suffocate, choke
to suffocate, choke
innombrable
(adj) innumerable
l'enclume
(nf)
(nf)

le pantin

(n) stooge, puppet




[44]

mariner

(v) marinate




("Ce garçon va finir par ________ dans sa gamelle




[48]

la gamelle
(n) mess-tin, (fam) helmet [48]

(n) mess-tin,


(coll) helmet




[48]

garder le cap

(v phrase) stay the course




[48]

foudroyant(e)

(adj) devastating




[9]

le prodige

(n) marvel, wonder




[9]