jack boots

French translation: bottes cavalières

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English term or phrase:jack boots
French translation:bottes cavalières
Entered by: Stéphanie Soudais

08:23 Oct 19, 2007
English to French translations [PRO]
Military / Defense / WWI Uniform
English term or phrase: jack boots
Tenue des soldats de la Première Guerre mondiale:

Newly issued steel helmet, first used at Verdun, together used with the wearing of puttees instead of the earlier jack boots.
Stéphanie Soudais
France
Local time: 09:47
bottes cavalières
Explanation:
d'après le Robert et Collins...
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Sara M
Local time: 09:47
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Merci Orbis
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4 +1bottes cavalières
Sara M
4botillons
Pierre POUSSIN


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
bottes cavalières


Explanation:
d'après le Robert et Collins...

Sara M
Local time: 09:47
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Merci Orbis

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agree  Marie Perrin
3 hrs
  -> merci Marie
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
botillons


Explanation:
Tenue de cheval: "puttee" (culotte de cheval) et bottillons (comme portés par les hommes à présent)
ou "puttee" qui s'enfoncent dans les "bottes cavalières"

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Note added at 12 mins (2007-10-19 08:36:02 GMT)
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Pardon: "Bottillons" oops!

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Note added at 16 mins (2007-10-19 08:39:53 GMT)
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Je crois qu'ici on peut parler de "Godilots" avec "Bandes molletières" (puttee) J'ai fait une ereeur dans ma première explication, désolé!

Pierre POUSSIN
France
Local time: 09:47
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 470

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  BusterK: pas spécialiste mais la phrase est puttees instead of jack boots. Donc les deux s'excluent mutuellement...
37 mins
  -> D'accord, voir note n°2
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