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51 Cards in this Set
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le ver
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(n) worm, maggot
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la disette
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(n) food shortage, less severe than "famine"
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la foudre
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(n) lightning
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le gringalet
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(n) a runt, puny little person or thing
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cogner
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(v) to knock, beat with a fist
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pulpeux
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(adj, masc) full (as in eyelids)
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pulpeuse
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(adj, fem) curvacious, voluptuous
(said of women); also "juicy" |
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le rustaud
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(n) a churl, a crass, vulgar person
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pendard
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(adj) lit. worthy to be hanged,
i.e. dishonest, rascally |
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rouquin(e)
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(adj) ginger-haired, red-headed
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taper
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(v) to slap, beat
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enfoncer
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(v) to drive in (a nail),
to stick in (a knife) |
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entretenu(e)
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(adj) well-kept, looked after
(as in love or glory) |
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la tanière
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(n) hideaway (of a person), lair (of an animal)
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la chair
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flesh
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la carne
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tough, poor quality meat; an old nag or also a funky despicable person
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dénicher
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(v) =trouver; to dig up, scare up
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le jupon
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(n) petticoat
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la glaive
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(n) poleaxe, also a two-edged sword
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seller
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(v) to saddle (a horse)
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le croc
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(n) fang
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la pucelle
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(n) maid, virgin
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le sortilège
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(n) sorcery
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le jouvenceau
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(n) youth, adolescent (archaeic)
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tricher
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(v) to cheat
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enrager
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(v) to be furious
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le tournoi
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(n) tournament
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la charpente
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(n) framework; also build (of a person)
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la bosse
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(n) bump (eg, on the head);
also a hump of a camel |
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le vantard
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(n) boaster, boastful person
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le bavard
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(n) chatterbox
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friper
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(v) to crumple
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foin de
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(phrase) =pas de
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ronger
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(v) to gnaw at
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accourir à
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(v) to rush up to
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l'intendant(e)
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(n) superintendant or manager
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l'hameçon
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(nm) fishhook
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la Faucheuse
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(n) Grim Reaper (also the name that Bragon gives his axe)
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la fourche
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(n) pitchfork
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vain(e)
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(adj) empty
"La gloire es_____e" |
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les bestiaux
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(n pl) livestock
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le brimborion
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(n) a thing of very little or no value
a bastardised form of the Latin breviarium (breviary), the service book used by priests. Randall Cotgrave wrote in his French-English dictionary of 1611 that the word came to mean “foolish charms or superstitious prayers, used by old and simple women against the toothache, and any such threadbare and musty rags of blind devotion”, hence something valueless. |
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le sucrerie
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(n) a sweet, with sugar as chief ingredient
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étouffer
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to suffocate, choke
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le cuir bouilli
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(n) leather hardened by boiling and used for leather armor
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la poignée
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(n) handful or fistful
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l'écume
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(nf) foam, scum
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l'enclume
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(nf)
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le coup de semonce
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(n phrase) warning shot
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innombrable
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(adj) innumerable
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"Il n'y a pas de 'je' qui tienne, fai-néant!"
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"Don't talk back you do-nothing!"
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