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87 Cards in this Set
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un sarrau
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smock
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le brou
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husk (of nuts)
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une bière
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casket, coffin
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une verrière
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glass window/roof
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la chaux
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lime (chem)
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blanchir à la chaux
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to whitewash
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affairé(e)
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busy
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une perruche
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budgerigar
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un jacassement
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chirping, chattering
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subvenir à ses besoins
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to provide for os, to look after os
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s’assoupir
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to doze/nod off
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un cahot
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lurch
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affaire classée
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case closed
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avoir de la peine
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to grieve
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un brassard
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armband
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un tablier
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overall, apron
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un cordon
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cord
waistcloth, belt sash |
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bombé(e)
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rounded, bulging
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dodeliner
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to sway
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bredouiller
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to mumble, mutter
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bégayer
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to stammer, stutter
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frôler
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to brush past, touch lightly
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éclabousser
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to splash, spatter
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un commutateur
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switch
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(un/e) indigent(e)
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pauper
impoverished undeserving (n or adj) |
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un corbillard
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hearse
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tortiller
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to roll (sth)
to wiggle |
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se faire à
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to come to terms with, to deal with
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un frelon
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hornet
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un chancre
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lesion
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une allure
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appearance, air, aspect
gait |
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une calotte
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skull-cap
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bouchonner
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to rub down (horse)
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une étoffe
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material, fabric
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baller
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to dangle, hang loosely
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à la longue
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in the long run
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emprunté(e)
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stiff, self-conscious, awkward
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un ordonnateur(-rice)
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organiser
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un plumier
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pencil case
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vernir
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to varnish
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un encensoir
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censer, container for burning incense
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en l’espèce
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in this particular case
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arracher
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to pull up, uproot
to extract, wrench, wrest, tear out |
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un remue-ménage
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upheaval
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un platane
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plane-tree
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(un) cocher
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to tick
coachman |
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gluant(e)
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glutinous, slimy, gooey
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terne
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grey, lacklustre, dreary, dim, drab
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le crottin
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animal dung
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une nuée
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cloud (lit)
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couper à travers champs
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to cut across fields
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ourlé(e)
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hemmed
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à un moment donné
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at a given moment
at some point |
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perler
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to form (sweat)
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un crépitement
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crackle (of fire)
spattering, splattering |
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claudiquer
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to limp, hobble (lit)
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tressaillir
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to flinch
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blafard(e)
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wan (lit)
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débordant(e)
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boiling/bubbling over, overflowing
unbridled, boundless |
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une trêve
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truce, cease-fire
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une réclame
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advertisement (for a product)
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(un) pavé(e)
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cobbled (street)
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s’empêtrer (dans)
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to get os tangled up (in)
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un noeud papillon
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bow tie
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la laque
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lacquer
hairspray gloss paint |
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cintré(e)
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fitted (clothes)
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pour ainsi dire
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so to speak
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à l’abandon
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neglected, abandoned
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creuser
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to hollow out, to dig a hole in
to dig, bore, drill |
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la paille
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straw (hay)
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à même le sol/la peau
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on bare ground/skin
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un traversin
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bolster (bed)
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faire plaisir à qqn
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to please sb
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une bouée
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buoy
rubber ring (swimming) |
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se hisser
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to heave/hoist os up
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un marchepied
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step (on a train)
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une rambarde
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guardrail
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une pochette
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pocket handkerchief
clutch bag sleeve (disc) |
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tiré(e)
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long, drawn-out
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insensible
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insensitive
numb imperceptible |
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en cheveux
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with nothing on one’s head, hatless
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affluer
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to rush, flock
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crier/hurler à pleins poumons
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to shout at the top of one’s lungs
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enfourcher
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to get on (sth)
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une grappe
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cluster (flowers)
bunch (eg grapes) |
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la sciure
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sawdust
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le dossier
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back (of a chair)
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