English: artsyFrench translation: à prétension artistique 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | English term or phrase: | artsy | | French translation: | à prétension artistique | | Entered by: | SML |
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English to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting | | English term or phrase: artsy | | No context, sorry... |
| | | à prétension artistique | Explanation:
autrement dit, ce n'est pas vraiment un compliment!
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Note added at 5 mins (2004-12-20 11:19:29 GMT)
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prétention, sorry
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Note added at 6 mins (2004-12-20 11:20:45 GMT)
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prétentieusement artistique |
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Dr Sue Levy
Luxembourg
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| à prétension artistique
Explanation:
autrement dit, ce n'est pas vraiment un compliment!
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Note added at 5 mins (2004-12-20 11:19:29 GMT)
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prétention, sorry
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Note added at 6 mins (2004-12-20 11:20:45 GMT)
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prétentieusement artistique
| Dr Sue Levy
Luxembourg
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Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 26
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| Sens artistique et créative
Explanation:
Quelqu'un avec un sens de tout qui est dans la domaine de l'arte et de la créativité. On pense à ARTE par exemple.
C'est toujours quelqu'un avec du talent artistique.
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| qui se donne le genre artistique ou bohème
Explanation:
artsy=arty
s'il est question d'une personne.
Au sujet de vêtements: de style faussement artistique
Le Robert & Collins Super Senior
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| meaning of "artsy" not so clear-cut
Explanation:
Sans contexte, il me semble difficile de traduire:
"aux ambitions artistiques ",
"Prétendument artistique",
"faussement artistique"
"qui se veut artistique",
"toc", "camelote",
"Artsy" n'est d'ailleurs pas toujours employé dans un sens négatif, il y a aussi le clin d'oeil, l'ironie...
ARTSY, adj. pretending to be artistic. Overly artistic. [Compound of arts + 'y' (adjectival ending, "have the characteristic of")] http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/page1.html
I've noticed that people find the name of Winnie's Artsy Cafe either terribly self-conscious or brilliantly self-confident. Whichever your perspective, if you drive down Magazine Street regularly you've probably caught yourself imagining what lies behind Winnie's cardinal-red door, studying the sign that swings above the cafe's blue stairs and drooling over its yard-long sandwich, and watching the ladies perched day after day upon the diner stools on Winnie's covered porch and wondering what you're missing.
There's no disputing that Winnie's is an artsy cafe. Where to begin ... at the wild tufts of knee-high grasses sprouting from the patch of ground between Winnie's section of sidewalk and the curb? At the frosty sunbeams delicately sketched on an inner window? At the lampshade fabricated from wire caging and something that resembles vacuum cleaner bristles? At the ruby slippers, the exquisite foot-tall potted trees, the red-wine walls, the plastic trout or the fluffy clouds on the ceiling?
Project of passion: The hodge-podge of objects inside WINNIE'S ARTSY CAFE is a combination of tacky, kitschy, Ne Age, cute and innovative pieces that add up to thoroughly creative
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2002-11-05/restrevi...
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| "arteux"
Explanation:
pour reprendre la connotation péjorative des suffixes en -eux comme dans un "théâtreux" ou un "journaleux", signifiant que la personne s'essaie à un art sans y arriver.
| alx
France
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