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champ de courses nom {m} | racecourse [racecourses]◼◼◼(a course over which races are run) turf [turves]◼◻◻(a racetrack; or the sport of racing horse) |
chèvre des montagnes Rocheuses nom {f} | mountain goat◼◼◼(Oreamnos americanus) |
chiens écrasés nom {m} | dead donkey(news item of no real significance) |
choses de ce genre pronoun {f-Pl} | suchlike◼◼◼(more of the same kind) |
classes nom {f pl} | basic training◼◼◼(standard training regime for introducing new recruits) |
classes de première et terminale nom {f pl} | sixth form(final two years of secondary schooling) |
Communion des Églises orthodoxes nom {f} | Eastern Orthodox Church(division of Christianity) |
coulisses nom {f pl} | backstage◼◼◼(the area behind the stage) |
courses nom {f pl} | shopping [shoppings]◼◼◼(activity of buying) groceries◼◼◻(commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery) |
courses d'automobiles nom {f pl} | motor racing(auto racing) |
courses de chevaux nom {f pl} | horse racing◼◼◼(a sport where horses and their jockeys compete to be fastest) |
couvrir ses arrières verbe | cover one's backverb |
cueillette de cerises nom {f} | cherry picking◼◼◼(selection of desirable items to obtain an advantage) |
cuisses de grenouilles nom {f pl} | frog legs◼◼◼(hind legs of frog as food) |
c’est dans le besoin que l’on reconnaît ses amis phrase | a friend in need is a friend indeed(if a friend helps you when you are in need, they are a true friend) |
dames chinoises nom | Chinese checkers◼◼◼(board game) |
dans le pire des cas (in the worst of the cases) adverbe | worst comes to worst◼◼◼(if a bad situation develops) |
dans les coulisses preposition | behind the scenes◼◼◼(in secret; out of public view) |
de ses idées verbe | get ahead of oneself(to make points out of logical or chronological sequence) |
de ses propres yeux preposition | with one's own eyes◼◼◼preposition |
de toutes ses forces preposition | with all one's mightpreposition |
déni de grossesse nom {m} | denial of pregnancy◼◼◼(refusal to accept one's pregnancy) |
désescalade nom {f} | de-escalation [de-escalations]◼◼◼(a decrease in scope, extension or severity) |
désespérance nom {f} | hopelessness◼◼◼(the lack of hope; despair) |
désespérant adjectif | sore [sorer, sorest](dire, distressing) |
désespéré nom | desperate◼◼◼(filled with despair) |
désespéré adjectif | hopeless◼◼◻(destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing) forlorn◼◻◻(unlikely to succeed) |
désespérément adverbe | desperately◼◼◼(in a desperate manner) |
désespérer verbe | despair◼◼◼(to be hopeless) despair◼◼◼(to despair of) give up◼◼◻(lose hope) lose heart◼◻◻(to despair) |
désespoir nom {m} | despair◼◼◼(loss of hope) desperation◼◼◼(the act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope) |
désespoir nom | despondency◼◻◻(loss of hope or confidence) |
désespoir des singes nom {m} | monkey puzzle◼◼◼(Araucaria araucana) |
déterminant possessif nom {m} |