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convention collective de travail nom {f} | collective agreement◼◼◼(contract on terms and conditions of employment) |
convention de Genève nom {f} | Geneva Convention◼◼◼(international treaty) |
Convention de Varsovie nom propre | Warsaw Convention◼◼◼(international treaty) |
Convention nationale nom {f} | National Convention◼◼◼(assembly holding executive power during the French Revolution) |
conventionnalisme nom {m} | conventionalism◼◼◼(Adherence to social conventions) |
conventionnel adjectif | conventional◼◼◼(ordinary, commonplace) mainstream◼◼◻(used or accepted broadly; common, usual or conventional) |
conventionnellement adverbe | conventionally◼◼◼(by convention) |
couché sur le ventre adjectif | prone [proner, pronest]◼◼◼(lying face downward; prostrate) |
coup de vent nom {m} | gale [gales]◼◼◼(meteorology: a very strong wind) gust [gusts]◼◼◼(strong, abrupt rush of wind) |
coupe-vent nom {m} | windbreaker◼◼◼(thin outer coat) |
couronne de l’Avent nom {f} | Advent wreath◼◼◼(usually evergreen wreath adorned with four candles) |
couvent nom {m} | convent [convents]◼◼◼(religious community of especially nuns) convent [convents]◼◼◼noun nunnery [nunneries]◼◼◻(residence for nuns) |
d'aventure preposition | by chance◼◼◼(unexpected(ly); accidental(ly)) |
dans le vent preposition | in the swim(actively participating in the flow of events) |
danse du ventre nom {f} | belly dance◼◼◼(form of dance) |
décubitus ventral nom {m} | prone position [prone positions]◼◼◼(body position with the person lying with the chest down) |
demande reconventionnelle nom {f} | counterclaim [counterclaims]◼◼◼(suit filed by a defendant against a plaintiff) |
diseur de bonne aventure nom {m} | fortune-teller◼◼◼(person who professes to predict the future in return for money) |
diseuse de bonne aventure nom {f} | fortune-teller◼◼◼(person who professes to predict the future in return for money) |
en vente preposition | for sale◼◼◼(being offered for purchase) on sale◼◼◼(available for purchase) |
en vente libre adjectif | over-the-counter◼◼◼(pharmacy: not requiring a prescription) |
engoulevent nom {m} | nightjar [nightjars]◼◼◼(nocturnal bird of the family Caprimulgidae) |
évent nom {m} | blowhole [blowholes]◼◼◼(spiracle through which cetaceans breathe) blowhole [blowholes]◼◼◼noun |
éventail nom {m} | array [arrays]◼◼◼(large collection) hand fan◼◻◻(hand-held device) |
éventer verbe | air [aired, airing, airs]◼◼◼(to ventilate) |
éventrer verbe | disembowel [disembowelled, disembowelling, disembowels]◼◼◼(to take or let out the bowels) |
éventreur nom {m} | ripper [rippers]◼◼◼(murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade) |
éventualité nom {f} | contingency [contingencies]◼◼◼(quality of being contingent; unpredictability) |
éventualité nom | eventuality [eventualities]◼◼◼(possible event, see also: contingency) |
éventuel adjectif | contingent◼◼◼(possible, liable, incidental, casual) |
faut que les bottines suivent les babines verbe | walk the talk(to act in accordance with one's words) walk the walk(follow up on what one has promised) |
fenêtre à auvent nom {f} | awning window◼◼◼(window) |