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une cornemuse

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bagpipe

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une pépite

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nugget

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éparse (adj)

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scattered
disorganized

en désordre
dispersé

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un feulement

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growl

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un point de rupture

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breaking point

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funeste (adj)

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fatal

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un avis de recherche

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wanted poster

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basculer

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to tip over

renverser

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bousculer

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bump into

shake up

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squatter

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to squat

occupy lodging illicitly

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une calotte

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skullcap 
ceiling vault  (ie cap of a space)

calotte glacière = icecap

slap (informal)

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calotter

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to don a calotte

to slap   (inf)
steal       (inf)
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la paresse

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laziness
indifference
sluggishness

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les salopettes (fp)

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overalls

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un/une funambule

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tightrope walker

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un soubassement

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crawl space

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un holster

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holster

étui (handgun, knife)
fonte (long gun, eg on a saddle)

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le matériel de pointe

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necessary equipment??

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un fossoyeur

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gravedigger

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l’avènement

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accession
rise to power

ascension
arrivée au pouvoir

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se tapir

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to hide

se cacher
se blottir

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phare (adj)

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key
seminal
climactic

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muré (adj)

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walled off

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l’aigreur (f)

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sourness
heartburn

avec aigre

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effarant (adj)
incredible incroyable effarer = to alarm
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piquer un fard
to turn beet red
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un serrurier
locksmith
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un zone d’ombre
grey area
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une lande
moor | area of shrubs, thickets, copses of trees
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une dépendance
dependence link outbuildings (on a farm)
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un concentré
concentrate (result of evaporation)
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un banc de développé-couché
shoulder press bench (gym)
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répertorier
to inventory
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un noyer
walnut | walnut tree
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un ballot
ballot vote packet of merchandise
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à sa sauce
to his liking
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une résille la résille
net hairnet lead for stained glass windows
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anarchique (adj)
where there is anarchy
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un pacsé | une pacsée
partner in a PACS (common law?)
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marteau (adj)
cracked (informal)
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un rouge-gorge
robin
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tout droit sorti de…
straight out of…
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le décoffrage
?
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le troène
privet (hedge plant)
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pulluler
to proliferate | be numerous
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la mainmise
preponderance dominant prépondérance
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au petit bonheur…
on the chance that…
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l’eugénisme (m)
eugenics
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la trisomie 21
Down’s syndrome mongolisme
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le séquençage (du gène)
sequencing
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un verrou
bolt (of a lock)
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la prétention
pretentiousness
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un rafiot, rafiau
makeshift boat
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détraquer
damage beyond functioning abimer
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renvoyer
to send back reject, send away return to (earlier event)
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imbriquer
to overlap be jumbled together se chevaucher
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une expérience
experience experiment expérimenter
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un merdier
disorder confusion bloody mess
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un passage à gué (« gai »)
ford
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une otite
inflammation of the ear
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une jaunisse
jaundice
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un puériculteur | une puéricultrice
pediatric nurse
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avoir pignon sur rue
to be well-established
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faire chou blanc
draw a blank
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en plein dedans
??
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le taf
work to do | to do list
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une taffe
drag (on a cigarette) bouffée
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un usurpateur | une usurpatrice
usurper | imposter
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pas que du bien
??
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mater
``` spy on (informal) oogle ```
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dans des donjons
??
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correspondant (adj)
corresponding
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rancarder/rencarder (informal)
to set up a rendezvous
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la sape
destruction saper = destroy foundations of a building (military) also: (informal) to dress up to the nines
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un branchage
mass of branches
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un écrou
nut (as in nut and bolt)
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branlant (adj)
lacking stability | rickety
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la tommette
hexagonal floor tile
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assoiffé de sang (adj)
bloodthirsty
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calquer se calquer
to copy trace to model oneself on
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taillader
to slash
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un expérimentateur | une expérimentatrice
experimenter
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l’agencement (m)
arrangement layout harmonious organization of an ensemble
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une pelleteuse
mechanical digger
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le délire
madness | delirium
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un coche
coach | stage coach
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paramètrable (adj)
??
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sans que
without
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une plaine
plane (geometry) plain (geography) flat
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un maillage
grid network mesh size
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étriqué (adj)
skimpy
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le dégradé
progressive attenuation of a colour
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touiller
to stir (eg coffee)

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