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une tenture

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wall hanging

curtain

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enfumé (adj)

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smokey

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enfumer

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to smoke out

fill st with smoke

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un lutteur

une lutteuse

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fighter

wrestler

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à quoi s’en tenir

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what to expect

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déguerpir

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to flee

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égailler

s’égailler

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to disperse

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spartiate (adj)

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spartan

austere

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écrouler

s’écrouler

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collapse
crumble
fade

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éternuer

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to sneeze

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en tout

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in all

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épater

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to amaze

impress

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glousser

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to chuckle
cluck
chortle
gobble

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de départ

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original

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une propension

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propensity
proclivity
inclination

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se tenir…

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to keep os…

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receler

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to conceal
hold
receive stolen goods

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battre en retraite

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beat a retreat

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d’arrache-pied (adv)

travailler d’arrache-pied

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tirelessly
indefatigably

to work flat out

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une languette

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tab

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l’aval

en aval

donner son aval à qqc

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backing

downstream
downhill

to give one’s backing to st

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la rédaction

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writing
editing

editorial office (news)

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un crible

passer au crible

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riddle (ie make holes)
sieve
screen

to sift through

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la paresse

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laziness

sloth

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paresser arrête de paresser
to laze lounge stop lounging about
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d’usage (adj)
customary | usual
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un couplet
stanza | verse
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volage (adj
flighty | fickle
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un rabat
flap
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le montant
upright uphill upstream
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une égratignure
scratch
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ménager
to take care of | coddle
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l’effervescence (f)
effervescence | turmoil
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le grabuge
scrap mayhem
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mis en cause
under scrutiny | questioned
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une affectation
affectation allocation posting appointment
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un sommier
bed base
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se dérober
shirk | evade
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esquiver
to dodge evade sidestep
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une pagaille en pagaille
mess shambles in a mess in profusion
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la jugeote
common sense
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un évêque
bishop | lord
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une entorse faire une entorse au règlement
sprain (med) twist wrench to bend the rules
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indemne (adj)
unhurt | unscathed
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miser sur
to bet on | count on
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le mobile
motive
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un taud
awning | boat cover
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un youyou
dinghy
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le palissandre
rosewood
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radoter
to ramble say st again and again talk drivel drool
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un buffle
buffalo
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en cale (boat)
docked
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obnubiler
to obsess
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obnubilé par
obsessed by
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faute de frappe
typo
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défier
to challenge | defy
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se défier
distrust
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un/une convive
guest dinner guest table-mate conversationalist
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un croquis
sketch
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en faveur de à la faveur de
in favour of thanks to
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éperdu (adj)
distracted wild overwhelming frantic desperate boundless
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fébrilement
feverishly
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une échancrure
indentation opening groove
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espacer
to space out | interspace
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s’espacer
to become less frequent
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en trois temps
in three stages
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rabrouer
to rebuff | snub
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en chute libre
in free fall
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sentir chez lui
to feel at home
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l’aulne (m)
alder
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enchevêtrer
to tangle | criss-cross
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un accroc un accroc à
infraction tear in
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un chenal
channel | millrace
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une balise
marker beacon signpost tag (IT)
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bastonner
to beat | cut
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un éclat de galet
pebble
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le remaniement un remaniement ministériel
rearrangement cabinet shuffle

Les Morts de la Saint-Jean (3 decks)

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