brise-vue
English translation: privacy fence
| 19:22 Apr 30, 2005 |
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|  Selected response from: Gayle Wallimann Local time: 11:22 | ||||||
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| 5 +6 | privacy fence |
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| 4 +1 | visual screen OR screening |
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| 4 -1 | portcullis |
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| 2 | screen or shield |
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screen or shield Explanation: The best I can think of I'm afraid! Good luck Sara |
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20 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): -1
peer agreement (net): -1portcullis Explanation: This may seem arcane but it is a trellis-like barrier used since medieval times as a physical and visual barrier, for privacy and for protection. Since brise-vue is literally "break-view" I like the simplified sound of a one word term like portcullis. |
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3 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1visual screen OR screening Explanation: I'm just checking in to echo Gayle's secondary suggestion of 'visual screen' As I suggested in my peer comment, I feel the best way to express it in Sandra's context might be as "two-metre-high screening" or if all else fails "a 2 m high privacy screen" I don't think the point needs to be laboured, to explain in detail the sense of the French; the whole idea is that their attempt to gain illicit access has been foiled by not only the repaired fence, but also by the added screening. |
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9 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +6
peer agreement (net): +6privacy fence Explanation: Privacy fences can be made of all kinds of materials. The French link for brise-vue shows various pictures of these fences/screens. Also called visual screens when made of light-weight material. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 11 hrs 19 mins (2005-05-01 06:41:05 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Privacy fence seems better to me because a visual screen is really not all that difficult to climb over. I imagine a kind of basket-weave wooden fence, not terribly strong, but difficult to get over if it\'s 2 meters high. The screen would be more lke green nylon webbing that is so often used here in Provence, attached to wire fencing. Here is my first link again, I realize that I gave you a broken link before. http://www.leguide.net/go/search/idx/5070000/mot/Brise_vue/t... www.leguide.net/go/search/ idx/5070000/mot/Brise_vue/t/1/go.htm Reference: http://www.usavinyl.com/semfen.html |
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