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Range

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L’éventail

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Pioneering/ leading

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Phare

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Puppet

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La marionnette

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Héritage

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Le patrimoine

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Advantage / asset

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L’atout

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Every other year

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Tous les deux ans

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Atmosphère/ mood

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L’ambiance

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To stroll

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Flâner

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To aim to

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Avoir comme objectif/ pour but de

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To believe in

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Croire en /à

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To have a party

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Faire la fête

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Célébrations

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Les festivités

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To mean

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Signifier

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Meaning

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La signification

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Symbolic acts

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Les acts symboliques

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Monotony

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La monotonie

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Bank holiday

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Le jour férié

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Christmas Eve

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La veille de Noël / le réveillon de Noël

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Midnight mass

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La messe de minuit

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New year

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Le Nouvel An

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New Year’s Day

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Le jour de l’an

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Epiphany

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Le fête de rois

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Epiphany cake

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La galette des rois

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Lucky charm in galette

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La fève

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Shrove Tuesday

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Mardi Gras

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Candlemas

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Le Chandeleur

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Easter

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Pâques

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1 may workers day

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La fête de travail

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Assumption

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L’Assomption

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All saints day

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La Toussaint

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All Souls’ Day

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La fête des morts / le jour des âmes

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Fest-noz (Breton festival of traditional music and dancing / folkish)

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Le fest-noz

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Christening

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Le baptême

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Funeral

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L’enterrement

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Funeral rites

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Les rites funéraires

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Diwali

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Diwali

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Eid

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L’Aid

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Ramadan

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Le ramadan

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Bar mitzvah

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La bar mitzvah

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Hannukkah

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Hanoucca

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Bastille day

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La fête nationale

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April fools day

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Le poisson d’avril

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Célébrations / festivities

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Les réjouissances

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Father Christmas

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Le père Noël

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Christmas tree

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Le sapin de Noël

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Bauble

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La boule de Noël

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Christmas log

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La bûche de Noël

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To give sweets to good children

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Distribuer des friandises aux enfants sages

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Sleigh

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Le traîneau

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Reindeer

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Les rennes

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Sleigh bell

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Le grelot

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Christmas dinner

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Le repas de Noël

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Turkey

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La dinde

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Oysters

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Les huîtres

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Advent calendar

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Le calendrier de l’avent

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Nativity scene

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La crèche

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Ornamental figures in Christmas nativity scenes

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Les santons

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In Provence, end of the Christmas Eve dinner with 13 desserts

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Les treize desserts

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A friendly atmosphere

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Une ambiance conviviale

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Commercialism

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La dérive commerciale

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Mercenary attitude

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Le mercantilisme

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Weakening of the spirit of solidarity

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L’affaiblissement de l’esprit de solidarité

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Some traditions are getting lost

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Certaines traditions se perdent

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March/procession

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Le défilé

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Float

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Le char

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Parade

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La parade

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Street show

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Le spectacle de rue

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Juggling

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Le jonglage/ la jongle

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To dress up

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Se déguiser

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Fairground

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La fête foraine

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Stall

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L’étal

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To commemorate

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Commémorer

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To celebrate Sb/sth

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Mettre à l’honneur

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To faste

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Jeûner

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Preparation

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Les préparatifs

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People come from near and far

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Les gens viennent de près comme loin

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Ostentatious

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Ostentatoire

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Survival of local cultures

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La survie des cultures locales

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Tradition

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Le folklore

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Héritage

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Le patrimoine

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To protect

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Sauvegarder

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From generation to generation

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De génération en génération

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Story/ tale

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Le conte

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Rooted

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Ancré

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Engrained

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Enraciné

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To bring together the family

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Souder la famille

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To forge links

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Tisser les liens

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Skill

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Le savoir-faire

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Authenticity

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L’authenticité

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Appropriate

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Convenable

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Stéréotypes

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Les stéréotypes

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To promote the local area

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Promouvoir la localité

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À vehicle for passing on our heritage

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Un vecteur du patrimoine

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Renowned

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Réputé

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Reductive

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Réducteur

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Handcrafted products

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Les produits artisanaux

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Traditional crafts

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L’artisanat traditionnel

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Garland

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Le collier de fleurs

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To exist since the dawn of time

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Exister depuis la nuit des temps

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Cultural habit

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Un usage culturel

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Habits and customs

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Les us et coutumes

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Good manners

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Les bonnes manières

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To greet

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Saluer

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Greetings

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Les salutations

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Ritual

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Le rite

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Kiss on the cheek

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La bise

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To give a handshake

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Donner une poignée de main / serrer la main

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Tip

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Le pourboire

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To queue

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Faire la queue

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Fresher initiation

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Le bizutage

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Apéritif

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L’apéro

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Appetiser

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L’amuse-bouche

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Tablecloth

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La nappe

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Napkin

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La serviette

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Guess

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Le convive

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Cheese platte

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Le plateau de fromages

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Stage

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La scène

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Vaudeville

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Le vaudeville

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To be against / contrary to

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Aller à l’encontre de

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Excessively

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À outrance

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Fall back on nationalist identity

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Le repli identitaire

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Force feeding

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Le gavage

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Eating horse

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L’hippophagie

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Injustice

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L’iniquité

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Goose

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Une oie

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Fillet

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Le magret

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Préserve

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Le confit

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Locally sourced

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De terroir

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To mass produce

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Produire en série

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Thirst quenching

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Désaltérant

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To kick off

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Donner le coup d’envoi

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To keep coming/ come one after another

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Se succéder

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Fallout/ repercussion

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La retombée

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Necklace

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Le collier

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Belonging/ affiliation

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L’appertenance

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Living environment

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Le cadre de vie

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Regions part of France abroad (Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Mayotte and La Réunion)

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Les territoires ultramarins

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To be in the habit of saying sth

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Avoir coutume de dire

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According to custom

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Comme le veut la coutume

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Usually

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De coutume

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More than usual

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Plus que de coutume

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Just this once don’t hurt

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Une fois n’est pas coutume

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