Legend tome 1b Flashcards
la tenue
- holding, running (of a meeting etc.)
- organizing, keeping
- conduct, manners
- bearing, posture
- clothes, dress, outfit
tenue de livres
bookkeeping
tenue d’hiver
winter clothing
tenue militaire
military dress, uniform
tenue de soirée
formal dress
se raviser
to change one’s mind
la couette
comforter, duvet
couettes
pigtails
en batailler
in disarray, disheveled
la reprise
- recapture
- resumption
- repeat, revival (in tv and movies)
à maintes reprises
on numerous occasions, repeatedly
mielleux
doucereux : sugary, saccharine
la mie
inside, soft part (of a loaf of bread)
bimensuelle
semi monthly, twice a month
brasser
- to mix, to toss, to shuffle
2. to brew (beer)
avouer
to admit, to confess, to own up
Quelle poisse!
What bad luck!
la paupière
eye lid
rixe
bagarre : brawl, fight
givre
frost
Il est complètement givré
(fam) : fou, ivre
ébullition
boil, boiling
en état d’ébullition
in a fever of excitement, in turmoil
criard(e)
- shrill
2. loud, garish