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33 Cards in this Set
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convenable
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reasonable, decent
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la pusillanimité
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the spinelessness, shyness
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le tilleul
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the lime-tree
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folâtre
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playful
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poltron, -ne
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cowardly, gutless
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un augure
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an omen
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le liséré
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the edging, the piping
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une senteur
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a (pleasant) scent
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un(e) orfèvre
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a goldsmith
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le parvis
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the square (in front of a church)
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un clocheton
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a little steeple, a pinnacle
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un trèfle
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a clover
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une tubéreuse
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a tuberose
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un mouron
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a pimpernel
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le suisse
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the verger (guide of a church)
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patelin(e)
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oily (demeanor)
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une ogive
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a rib
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un vitrail (pl : vitraux)
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stained-glass
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bariolé(e)
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gaudy
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un froufrou
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a rustle
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une oraison
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a prayer
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bigot(e)
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a bigot (n), zealoted (adj)
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chancelant(e)
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unsteady, shaky
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intempestif, -ive
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untimely, misplaced
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la fonte
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the cast-iron
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un chaudronnier, une chaudronnière
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a boilermaker
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un fiacre
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an hansom
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minauder
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to simper, to mince about
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un orme
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an elm (tree)
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le halage
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the towing
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vagabonder
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to wander, to stray
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les stores (m)
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the blinds
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darder
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to beam (only in reference to the sun)
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