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immeasurable

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incommensurable

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scapel

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un bistouri

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overlapping

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imbriqué

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a short nightgown

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une nuisette

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to feel giddy

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avoir le tournis

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a quilt

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une courtepointe

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(to make) a sudden subject change

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(faire) un coq-à-l’âne

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dumbfounded, stunned

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éberlué

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in the presence of

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par-devers

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to make a scene

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faire un esclandre

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an abundance, a proloferation

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un foisonnement

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an interlacing

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un entrelacs

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a piece of gossip

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un commérage

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a bud

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un bourgeon

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to warp, to buckle; to distort

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gauchir

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degradation, debasement

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un avilissement

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biting, caustic, bitter (cold)

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mordant

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a cat door; a ventilation hole

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une chatière

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gallows

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une potence

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to go home

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regagner ses pénates

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21
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potbellied

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ventru

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to pinch (steal)/swipe (fam)

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faucher (fam)

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a moray eel

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une murène

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fragrance, miasma

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un effluve

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hatching (drawing)

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une hachure

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temple (anatomy)

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la tempe

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to knock/bang together

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entrechoquer

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a splinter (wood/bone)

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une esquille

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a glob of spit (v fam)

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un glaviot (t fam)

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to have more than one’s fair share (of), to have more than enough (of)

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avoir son compte (de)

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a reprimand, a rebuke (form)

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une semonce (sou)

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joints; knuckles

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une jointure; des jointures des doigts

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a marble

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une bille

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to carry/wash along

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charrier

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to shout oneself hoarse

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s’époumoner

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a head (fam)

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une caboche (fam)

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little quirks, peculiar ways

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les petites manies

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38
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the subconscious

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le subconscient

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39
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a grimace

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un rictus

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40
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bravado, defiance

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la bravade

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painful numbness from cold

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l’onglée

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pivot, hub, crux

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un pivot

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to thrash about, to struggle

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se démener

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to stretch, overstretch, to distend

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distendre

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he cares nothing about (lit)

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il n’a cure de (litt)

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46
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death (lit)

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le trépas (litt)

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the rib cage

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le gril costal

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disheveled, frantic

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échevelé

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49
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foliage, leaves

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une frondaison

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a coil (of smoke)

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une volute

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51
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the back of the knee

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le jarret

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52
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to release /set free; to relieve

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délivrer

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a streak

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une coulure

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foamy/frothy (lit)

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écumant (litt)

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an edge (of the woods)

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une orée (du bois)

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a blaze (lot)

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une fournaise (litt)

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glowing red

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rougeoyant

58
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to shrivel up

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se racornir

59
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a piece of soot

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une escarbille

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a curse (lit)

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une imprécation (litt)

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skinny, emaciated (lit)

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étique (litt)

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to water (an eye); to snivel/wimper

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larmoyer

63
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a plane

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un méplat

64
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to stink, to stink up (a room), to stink of

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empester

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back light

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un contre-jour

66
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a knick-knack , a trinket

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une babiole

67
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lascivious, lewd

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lascif

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the depths (of one’s soul) (lit)

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le tréfonds (litt)

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rancid

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rance

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arm in arm

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bras dessus bras dessous

71
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a special dispensation/exemption

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une dérogation

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feasibility

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une faisabilité

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sickly sweet, honey-like

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mielleux

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to make proud (lit)

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enorgueillir (litt)

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blooming, radiant

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épanoui

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costs

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les dépens (m)

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to become disillusioned

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déchanter

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busy

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affairé

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healthy, beneficial

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salutaire

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a half-measure

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une demi-mesure

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to shout at

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apostropher

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a slum, a hob

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un taudis

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a breast, an udder

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une mamelle

84
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a gang of kids/brats (fam)

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une marmaille (fam)

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a maggot

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un asticot

86
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an awning, a glass canopy

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une marquise

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ponp (lit)

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les fastes (litt)

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sumptuousness, splendor

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le faste

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a bunch (e.g. of raisons)

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une grappe

90
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a gaslight

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un bec de gaz

91
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worn out/exhausted

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rompu

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to nibble/chew at

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mordiller

93
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knowledge, experience

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l’acquis (m)

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established, aquired

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acquis

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to growl

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feuler

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stupidity

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une ânerie

97
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don’t be so sure!

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détrempez-vous

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crumbly, friable (earth)

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meuble

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a rumbling (thunder)

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un roulement

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a blooming/flowering (lit)

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une efflorescence (litt)

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dreamlike (form)

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onirique (sou)

102
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trash

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les immondices (f)

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to instill/inspire (form)

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insuffler (sou)

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cinema

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le septième art

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to dust, to dust off

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épousseter

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fair’s fair

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c’est donnant-donnant

107
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to prune

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élaguer

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braggart, swaggerer

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une bravache

109
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lace

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guipure

110
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abundant

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foisonnant

111
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to get used to

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se faire à

112
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to take the rim off (tire)

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déjanté

113
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missing; we’re short one x

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en moins; il y a un X en moins

114
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Posh, smart (fam)

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huppé (fam)

115
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a scrapping

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une raclure

116
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to setup the scene/scenery

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planter le décor

117
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to court/woo someone

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faire la cour à qqn

118
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country/land (lit)

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une contrée (litt)

119
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a tuning fork

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un diaposon

120
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meanders, twists and turns

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des méandres (m)

121
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to rattle, to shake

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bringuebaler

122
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a storage room

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un cagibi

123
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a legless person

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un/une cul-de-jatte

124
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filling, stuffing, fluff

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une bourre

125
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to pig out (v fam)

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se taper la cloche (t fam)

126
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the munchies

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la foncedalle

127
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spirit, liveliness

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un entrain

128
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spirit, liveliness

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un entrain

129
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an offender

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un contravenant; une contravenante

130
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fond

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friand, friande

131
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stale

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rassis, rassise

French Vocabulary - Encountered (22 decks)

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