des fers de lunette

English translation: Winding eyeglasses

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French term or phrase:des fers de lunette
English translation:Winding eyeglasses
Entered by: Shog Imas

15:48 Jan 27, 2003
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering / design
French term or phrase: des fers de lunette
text is about design agency who has plans available for 'des fers de lunettes'
PJO
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:33
Winding eyeglasses
Explanation:
Modern eyeglasses can be folded up, bent, so they are not built in a frame, but in folding frame which could be called as in the dictionary:
Winding eyeglasses.
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Shog Imas
Canada
Local time: 11:33
Grading comment
Thank you for saying something positive at least! This one was a real stinker - I asked the client in the end and they agreed it was probably conceptual - and that the author was completely mad!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1spectacles shoes (for instance)
Florence Bremond
4a new type of spectacles hinges
Lionel Lumbroso
4Winding eyeglasses
Shog Imas
3fers égal monture ? frame ?
cjohnstone


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fers égal monture ? frame ?


Explanation:
but Gayle is right, if you want help, help us....

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Note added at 2003-01-27 16:15:15 (GMT)
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otherwise, we might as well do crossword puzzles.....

cjohnstone
France
Local time: 16:33
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
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I asked for help, not patronising comments.
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spectacles shoes (for instance)


Explanation:
This sounds like a serie of impossible objects - "un bic sympathique" would be an invisible ink ball point pencil for instance.
Probably a humorous paragraph.

Florence Bremond
France
Local time: 16:33
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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Helpful, thanks, but other answer more definite

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agree  Yolanda Broad: Or: (plans for) shoeing spectacles/eyeglasses
1 day 9 hrs
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a new type of spectacles hinges


Explanation:
Oui, Oddie est dans le vrai et j'ai fait un commentaire dans le même sens pour l'entrée "inscriptions d'heures" sans avoir vue cette entrée.

J'ai fait là-bas une hypothèse sur "lunette" = "siège de WC", mais ça ne doit pas être le cas au pluriel.


Lionel Lumbroso
Local time: 16:33
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Helpful, thanks, but other answer more definite
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Winding eyeglasses


Explanation:
Modern eyeglasses can be folded up, bent, so they are not built in a frame, but in folding frame which could be called as in the dictionary:
Winding eyeglasses.

Shog Imas
Canada
Local time: 11:33
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 134
Grading comment
Thank you for saying something positive at least! This one was a real stinker - I asked the client in the end and they agreed it was probably conceptual - and that the author was completely mad!
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