Le Sange De La Cité Flashcards by Phoebe Labat

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apostropher

A

To call out to

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Passant, passante

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A passerby

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Déambule

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To stroll

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Une poignée parmi

A

A handful of…

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Une ruelle

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An alleyway or narrow street

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retrancher

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To cut away, cut off

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Une masure

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A shack, hovel, or shanty; a farmstead

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entasser

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To accumulate, stockpile; pile up, heap

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Une placette

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A small square; plot

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Une tractation

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Talks, negotiations; deal

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contrecarrer

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To thwart, foil, oppose, stymie

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À la hâte

A

Hastily

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débusquer

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To flush out, drive out; to come out of the woods

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Une haine

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Hatred, hate; aversion, opposition

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enfouir [qqln/qqlch]

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To bury

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se dresser

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To stand, tower, rise; to stand against, rise against

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noircir

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To blacken, darken; to make darker

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vanter

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To praise, extol

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Une tourelle

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Turret, small tower

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enjoliver

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To embellish, adorn, embroider, dress up

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céder

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To give w y, collapse; concede, yield

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Une engeance

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Tribe; rabble, mob

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maudit, maudite (adj.)

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Wretched, cursed, damned

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quant à [qch]

A

As for; when it comes to

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embrocher

A

To skewer

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Soudards

A

Soldiers

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odieux (adj.)

A

Horrible, terrible, obnoxious

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Une poix

A

Pitch

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Un gargouillis

A

Rumbling, gurgling, babbling

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Un pommeau

A

Pommel (of a sword or cane); knob

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effondrer

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To knock down, demolish, dismantle; to collapse

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jaillir

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To spring, gush, spurt, spout; to suddenly come to mind

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occire [qqn]

A

To slay

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Oú fut-il touché?

A

Where was he hit?

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Un bouillon

A

Broth, stock; bubble; gush, flow

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lier

A

To tie; to binder together

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soigné, soignée (adj.)

A

Sick person, patient; the sick

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Une carapace

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Shell; armor

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Un tapis

A

Carpet, rug

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ôter [qch] /de [qch]

A

To take out of; to remove

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Un geste

A

Gesture, movement; handicraft

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L’échelle (f)

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Ladder; scale

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Les tréfonds (m)

A

Depths

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pulluler

A

To proliferate, multiply; to abound

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maint (adj.)

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Many, numerous, manifold

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Ployer

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To bend; to buckle or be weighed down

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Un vacarme

A

Racket, din, row

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Une griffe

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Claw, talon; label, brand

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mordre

A

To bite, peck

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Une égratignure

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Scratch, graze; a scuff mark

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Nu (adj.)

A

Naked

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La boue

A

Mud, sludge

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Soulever

A

To lift

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crotté

A

Muddy (possibly means shitty)