Geneva Flashcards by Kira Cusack

réforme

reformation

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Gavi, l’Alliance mondiale pour les vaccins et l’immunisation

Gavi, l’Alliance mondiale pour les vaccins et l’immunisation (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization)

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cluster, groupe, foyer, ensemble

cluster

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Palais des Nations

Nations Palace

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salle des conseils

council chamber

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Commission du désarmement de l’Organisation des Nations Unies

United Nations Disarmament Commission

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terrain en terre battue

clay court

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émaillage

enamelling

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guillochis est un « ornement composé de lignes, de traits ondés qui s’entrelacent ou se croisent avec symétrie »

guilloche work

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Fabrique (savoir-faire touchant à l’horlogerie, à l’orfèvrerie et à la bijouterie)

Fabrique (community of craftsmen – watchmakers, goldsmiths, jewellers and other highly skilled artisans who worked with precious metal)

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être en reste

is no expection

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frondeur

political rebel

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Feuillu, fête populaire

Feuillu, folk festival

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Tour ATP/WTA

ATP/WTA tournament

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en tournée

on the stump, on tour

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feutré

hushed

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intimiste

private, intimate, small

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musique electro

electronic music, EDM

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ballet

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somptueux, luxueux, magnifique, élouissant, fabuleux, féérique, riche, triomphal, superbe

luxurious, splendid, lavish, ornate, fancy, stylish, elegant, palatial

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récital

recitals concert

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concert symphonique (de l’orchestre symphonique)

symphony orchestra concerts

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lieu incontournable

must-see attraction

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spectacle humoristique

comedy, comedy show, comedy/comic series (TV, radio), stand-up show

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comédie musicale

musical

divertissement, amusement, distraction, détente, récréation

entertaiment, leisure, performance, show

salle de spectacle

theatre, concert hall, multi-purpose concert hall

piste cyclable

cycle track, cycle path, cycleway, cycle lane

mobilité douce

eco-friendly transport, on foot or by byke

régate

regatta

course de relais

relay race

Grand Théâtre de Genève

Geneva Opera House

convivial

friendly

mélomane

music lover

mode de transport

means of transport

transfrontalier

cross-border

borne automatique

self-service ticket machine

silloner

criss-cross

cosmopolitisme/cosmopolitanisme

cosmopolitanism, global/universal character

diète (assemblée legislative)

diet (legislative assembly)

parga

ionnienne

Ionnian

corfou

corfu

autodidacte

self-educated

maître horloger

master watchmaker

horlogerie

(industrie) watchmaking; (boutique) watchmaker's (shop); (produits) clocks and watches (pl);

précurseur

pioneer, frontrunner, forerunner, precursor

Lumières (siècle)

Enlightenment (Age)

sacrements

sacraments

presbytérien

presbyterian

Huguenots

émeutes iconoclastes

iconoclastic riots

écritures

scriptures

indélébile

indelible

clergé, prêtrise

priesthood

évêque

bishop

laïque

lay, secular

Institutio Christianae religionis (livre Calvin latin)

Institutes of the Christian Religion (book by Calvin)

théologien

theologian

homme d'État ecclésiastique

ecclesiastical statesman

vin chaud

mulled wine

Ainsi périrent les ennemis de la République!

Thus perished the enemies of the Republic!

pâte d'amande

marzipan

brigand, bandit, voleur, fripouille, vaurien, malfaiteur, truand, forban, canaille, gredin, scélérat, crapule, gangster, fripon, chenapan

brigand, robber, outlaw, ruffian, desperado, plunderer, marauder, raider, pillager, highwayman, criminal, thug, gangster, pirate, freebooter

chaudron, marmite

cauldron

agitation

commotion

déjouer, empêcher que quelque chose ne se produise

to foil, prevent something from happening

porticullis (porte en métal lourd)

porticullis (heavy metal gate)

plaque commemorative

commemorative plaque, memorial tablet, ornemental tablet

ducaton (ancienne monnaie d'argent; ducat d'argent valant la moitié du ducat)

ducaton (old silver coin; silver ducat worth half the ducat)

cavalerie (ensemble de troupes à cheval)

cavalry (set of troops on horseback)

courtine, mur de fortification, mur de rempart

courtine, fortification wall, fortress wall, bastion wall, palisade wall,

pétardier

petardier

donner un assaut, attaquer

to assault, attack, make an assault on, launch an attack on, assail, pounce on, set upon, launch oneself at, strike at, fall on, swoop on, rush, storm, besiege.

garnison (troupe de soldats casernée dans un endroit, une ville)

garrison

assaillant, attaquant

assailant, assaulter, robber, bushwhacker, predator, invader, besieger, rapist.

herse (grille mobile armée à sa partie inférieure de fortes pointes, à l'entrée d'un château fort)

harrow (mobile grid armed at its lower parts, at the entrance of a fortified castle)

gardien de nuit (Isaac Mercier)

night guard (Isaac Mercier)

Philippe III d'Espagne

Philip III of Spain

genevois

genevan or genevese

grimper, escalader, gravir, se hisser, faire une ascension

to scale (to climb up or over something high and steep)

grand seigneur (elegant, urbane gentlement)

seigneur d'Albigny

Seigneur / Lord of Albigny

convoiter

to covet

citadins

townsfolk

Mère Royaume (Catherine Cheynel)

Mother Kingdom (Catherine Scheinel)

Duc de Savoie

Duke of Savoy (Charles Emmanuel I)

savoyard

Savoyard

Duché de Savoie

Duchy of Savoy (Catholic)

Course de l'escalade

Escalade Run

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