French: DécouverteEnglish translation: backdrop/stage backing/flat/panel 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | Découverte | | English translation: | backdrop/stage backing/flat/panel | | Entered by: | Vaughn |
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Furniture / Household Appliances | | French term or phrase: Découverte |
Apparently some kind of furniture or furnishing (though I'm not sure) - metal in this case
No context.
This is simply a list of items. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseFrench Foodie: 1:35pm Oct 14, 2005: Could you tell us what comes before and after it on the list? Are all the rest of the items on the list furnishings? For now the only thing I can think of is a decouverte as in the back-drop for photography or theater... -
Vaughn: 1:43pm Oct 14, 2005:
Mara, these are unrelated items like a violin bow, a chandelier, a table, a salad bowl, a whistle, etc
French Foodie: 1:49pm Oct 14, 2005: Are they all theater props or am I way off track? -
Tony M: 3:52pm Oct 14, 2005: It's daft to say "no context" --- there MUST be some! As Mara says, is this something to do with a theatre setting...? If not, what is this list of unrelated objects in connection with...? A removal company, an insurance claim... C'mon, gives us a clue! -
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| | backdrop/stage backing | Explanation:
As I said, this is just a guess, but if it is in a list of stage props, then it just might be it.
Good luck! |
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 French Foodie
France
| Note from asker to answererThe context was theater, but the object description of the object did not coorespond to a theatrical dŽcouverte, and like Bourth, I thought I had heard a weird name like this for a piece of furniture. As Dusty says, there is always context - in this case the several dozens of translations I've done for this surrealistic artist. I now believe the object - made of metal, relatively small and on rollers, is indeed a sort of theatrical "flat", in a surrealistic definition of "dŽcouverte" - it is certainly not a stage backdrop.
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| DŽcouverte Unless
Explanation:
they are suggesting that the next item on the list is a "must-buy", a "discovery", I have a funny idea it might be a sort of side table for clearing a dining table (to "découvrir", i.e. remove the "couverts), possibly a sort of trolley. We have small side tables called "servantes", but I cannot substantiate "découverte" in a similar sense.
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Note added at 46 mins (2005-10-14 14:15:02 GMT)
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I take that back. I think I'm imagining things, or confusing with "servante", though I think when one moves in the right circles and has the space and money, one does (or did) surround one's dining tables with a host of accessories with highly specific purposes and odd names, similar to chiffonier, chiffonnière, semainier, etc. (not related to dining).
| Bourth
France
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 26
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 |
| DŽcouverte Des couverts
Explanation:
Just another suggestion - especially as you say this is metal: could be a glitch for des couverts: some kind of cutlery.
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 |
| DŽcouverte backdrop/stage backing
Explanation:
As I said, this is just a guess, but if it is in a list of stage props, then it just might be it.
Good luck!
| French Foodie
France
Works in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 8
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| Note from asker to answerer| The context was theater, but the object description of the object did not coorespond to a theatrical dŽcouverte, and like Bourth, I thought I had heard a weird name like this for a piece of furniture. As Dusty says, there is always context - in this case the several dozens of translations I've done for this surrealistic artist. I now believe the object - made of metal, relatively small and on rollers, is indeed a sort of theatrical "flat", in a surrealistic definition of "dŽcouverte" - it is certainly not a stage backdrop. |
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| up-and-coming actress
Explanation:
;-)
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Note added at 22 hrs 5 mins (2005-10-15 11:33:49 GMT)
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Although perhaps more likely to be wooden than metallic.
| Tom Bishop
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: English
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