Balzac La Femme Sans Coeur
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French | English |
|---|---|
 taquin | teasing |
| un bordereau | ticket |
| un huissier | bailiff |
| frayer | to open up |
| factice | artificial |
| une coterie | set |
| rapetisser | to shrink |
| effaroucher | to frighten |
| avilier | to debase |
| espiègle | mischevious |
| une moulure | moulding |
| un escadron | squadron |
| crotté | muddy |
| fluet | thin |
| des hardes | rags |
| un fiacre | cab |
| une enfilade | series |
| chatouiller | to tickle |
| hâve | gaunt |
| abasourdi | stunned |
| le verglas | black ice |
| éclabousser | to splash |
| un présage | omen |
| émousser | to wane |
| les décombres | rubble |
| la proxnète | procurer |
| saccadé | jerky |
| le câlin | affection |
| une entrave | hindrance |
| troquer | to swap |
| s'avilir | to demean oneself |
| l'écorce | bark of a tree |
| mutin | mischievous |
| un canif | penknife |
| la lorgnette | opera glasses |
| une saillie | serving |
| fredonner | to hum |
| égratigner | to scratch |
| athée | atheist |
| l'ouïe | hearing |
| une fiole | flask |
| le tapage | noise |
| le carosse | horse-drawn coach |
| un baîllement | yawn |
| épars | scattered |
| un briquet | cigarette lighter |
| trépigner | to stamp one's feet |
| un entonnoir | funnel |
| le bûcher | funeral pyre |
| l'échéance | expiry |
| griffonner | to scribble |
| une sauterelle | grasshopper |
| la fange | mire |
| un rentier | person of independent means |
| un canaille | crook |
| un cor | horn |
| leste | nimble |
| ruer | to kick out |
| se ruer | to pounce on |
| juteux | juicy |
| un parterre | flowerbed |
| le lambris | panelling |
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