visuals indoors Flashcards
To luxuriate in a hot bath
Filthy sheet
Faulty bathroom fittngs
Abattant : flap
He hogs the bahroom for hours accotoir : armrest/ headrest
He was ushered into a large room
Aerosol can : bombe
Put your things away : ranger
Alcôve :
Statue in alcove
Arched window in an alcove
Stone carving in alcove
Big marble alcove with flowery inlay
To fix up a study in a room : aménager un studio
Articles d’ameublement : furnishings
Ampoule à vis : screw -fitting bulb
The pendulum was swinging steadily
Anse : handle
The vase is not level : d’aplomb
Applique : wall light
Back-up heater : d’appoint / extra
Bring up your chair : approcher
To stock up with wood
Window ledge : appui de fenêtre Who’ll get landed with the housework
Aquarium : fish tank
En métal argenté : silver-plated
Argenterie : silverware/ faire l’argenterie : to polish the silver
Scullery : arrrière-cuisine
A small room at the back of a kitchen
The rough patches on the surface of the table : aspérités
âtre : heart
The chair is a nice shape : ligne
Badine : rod
Badine a pommeau en ivoire sculpte
Synonymes baguette, canne, cravache, jonc
Bagatelle : trinket ; knick-knack
Baie vitrée : picture window
Sliding Windows
Beffroi : belfry
Billard américain : pinballl machine
To play marbles : billes
En biseau : bivelled
To fire blanks
Bloc de bureau : desk pad / writing pad
To turn a tap right off : à bloc
I propped the door open with a chair
Bobèche : candle ring
The ink soaks into this paper
Teargas grenade
This sheet is only fit for dusters / dustcloths
Bonde : plug
Fenêtre borgne : obstructed window
Borne d’incendie : fire hydrant
Bougeoir : candle holder
Bouillote : hot water bottle
À bout portant : at point blank range
This radio was blaring
To carry one’s weapon slung over the shoulders : à la bretelle
Il est bricoleur : he’s very handy
Everything is spick and span in his bathroom : brille
Brimborion :: bauble / trinket
A trinket is a small showy ornament, such as a jewel or a ring, or something that is a mere trifle.
Broc : ewer
My glasses are misting up : la buée brouille les verres de mes lunettes
The pattter of the rain against the window
Laundry : buanderie
Buffet roulant : refreshment trolley
Butoir de porte : doorstop
Cabas : shopping bag
An example of a single-use paper
shopping bag
Cache-pot : flowerpot holder
Cage d’escalier : stairwell
Cageot : crate
Cagibi : boxroom
making the most of small spaces
Cahute : shack
A shack is a type of small, often primitive shelter or dwelling
Cale : wedge
Calfeutrer un fenêtre : to put a weather strip round a window
Porte calfeutrée : draughtproof
Calebasse : calabash
Calice : chalice
Camaieu : monochrome
Camphre : camphor
Canapé convertible : sofa bed
Candélabre : candelabrum
Carquois : quiver
Faire les carreaux : to clean the windows
Casier à bouteilles : bottle rack
Cerceau : hoop
Chaise longue : deckchair
Châlit : bedstead
bed· stead
The frame supporting a bed.
Chambranle : doorpost
Quel chantier dans ta chambre : mess
A fire was crackling in the hearth : crépiter
Chenet : andiron / firedog
Fire dog (also firedog)
Hauutbois : oboe
Transat : deckchair
Cithare : cithara
Cimeterre : scimitar
Clarinette : clarinet
Clavecin : harpsichord
I looked in every nook and cranny
Whereabouts do you live
Colifichet : trinket
Charred debris : à demi consumés
Contrevent : volet : shutter
Cornemuses : bagpipes
bagpipes
Courtepointe : counterpane
Courtine : curtain
Couvre-lit : bedspread
Crachoir : cuspidor
Crachoter : robinet : to splutter
To raise a shelf a few notches
Cran de sureté : safety catch
flick knife
Cravacher : to horsewhip
Crayonner : to scribble
Crocheter une serrure : to pick
Croisée d’ogives : ribbed vaul
Scullery
Servants’ hall
Servants’ quarters
Croisillons : lattice work
