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bon Dieu de bois de saperlotte	mild blasphemy, euphemism	(Non-member)
bottine d'opéra	opera boots	DocteurPC
brasillement	glint/glimmering/flickering/sparkling	(Non-member)
bribes de laine étalent leur écheveau oblong ou étoilé selon le souffle du vent	scraps of wool spread out their skein, oblong or star-shaped, depending on the gusts of wind	Yolanda Broad
brûlot incendiaire	Greek fire	(Non-member)
castillèje	paintbrush	DocteurPC
ce ne sont pas des chars!	it's no joke!	(Non-member)
ce qui constituait un obstacle à l’assouvissement de ses ambitions	whatever threatened to get in the way of her ambitions	gad
cernes jusqu'aux oreilles	bags under his eyes, all the way to his ears	(Non-member)
ces extases sublimes ravissez	Speak; will you surrender the sublime ectasies From us you had ravished?	(Non-member)
Chacun à son métier doit toujours s'attacher	Every man to his own trade	(Non-member)
chalumeau	blow torch	(Non-member)
chambre de bonne	garret	(Non-member)
champignon	parasite	ryancolm
chasseurs	light cavalry	(Non-member)
chercher en parlant	Talk our way through our ideas	(Non-member)
Ciels près du Ventoux	Skies over Mt. Ventoux	Anna Maria Augustin
cliquetis de l'âge	creaking of old age/rattling of old bones	LM Loh
clopos	end of his cigarette	(Non-member)
clopos	fag or ciggie	(Non-member)

coeur violet	bruised heart	(Non-member)
comac	like that	Anne Farina
comédienne "gagiste"	hired actor	Caroline Vignard
combien jadis il faisait bon vivre, se promener, aimer sur ses rivages	how wonderful it was to experience life on the coast, to stroll along its shores and fall in love	(Non-member)
comique de situation	comedy of situation;	Carol Gullidge
commanditaire d’œuvres	commissioning works	Paula Price
commissaire, c'est trop policier	commissioner, that has too many police connotations	(Non-member)
compose de triangles plein la figure	tracing triangles on/all over her face	(Non-member)
copie laminée de cette page	laminated copy of this page	DocteurPC
coule une fontaine d'où jaillissent les sentiments profonds que j’éprouve pour toi	a fountain where the profound feelings I have for you gush forth from the depths	(Non-member)
couleur de rêve	to die for	(Non-member)
cramer les gigots de potamochère	grill / burn the bush pig legs	(Non-member)
C’est à juste titre que nos jeunes gens du kilomètre Cinq l’on surnommé le "Bouc	Our youth from the kilomètre Cinq nicknamed him the Butcher of Lobaye - and rightly so.	NancyLynn
Dame!...ce qui tombe dans le fossé est pour...	Well, what falls into the ditch is for the soldier	Nick Lingris
dans les milieux du pouvoir	influential circles, circles of power, corridors of power	Jana Cole
dans les retables rhénans	Rhenish or Rhineland altarpieces or Altarpieces of the Rhineland ( and, arcanely, reredoses may be substituted for altarpieces.)	(Non-member)
Dans un bruyante et joyeuse pagaye	In a noisy and happy chaos / mayhem	italian
démantibulé	disarticulate or torn apart	Florence B
dédoublement	split/ division/ breakup/ shearing off (etc.)	(Non-member)
déglumer	dehull	(Non-member)

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