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Passe-Muraille Vocabulary
Vocabulary found in the short story Passe-Muraille by Marcel Aymé
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Language - French
Undergraduate 1
09/05/2009

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un don
Definition
gift, talent
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une barbiche
Definition
goatee
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un chapeau melon
Definition
bowler hat
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une panne d'électricité
Definition
blackout
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une muraille
Definition
wall
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les ténèbres
Definition
darkness
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le surmenage
Definition
extreme physical extertion
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un cachet
Definition
tablet (of medicine)
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un réduit
Definition
recess, cubbyhole
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un fait divers
Definition
short news item
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un torchon
Definition
rag
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un but
Definition
goal
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un cambriolage
Definition
burglary
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un cambrioleur
Definition
burgler
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une bijouterie
Definition
jewelry store
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un cachot
Definition
prison cell
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une flânerie
Definition
stroll
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un cinéaste
Definition
movie director
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une persienne
Definition
shutter (for a window)
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l'ivresse
Definition
intoxication
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un frottement
Definition
rubbing, friction
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un noctambule
Definition
one who walks at night
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tâtonner
Definition
to feel about
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se dresser
Definition
to stand up, to rise
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balbutier
Definition
to stammer
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boucler
Definition
to lock up
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fermer à clé
Definition
to lock
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avaler
Definition
to swallow
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éprouver
Definition
to feel, to experience (a sensation)
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singulier/ière
Definition
singular, noteworthy
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écœuré/e
Definition
nauseated, disgusted
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figé/e
Definition
stuck
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mettre à l'épreuve
Definition
to test, to put to the test
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avoir la parole brève
Definition
to be curt, brusque
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mettre le comble à
Definition
to top off (as in, "to top off our bad luck, we ran out of gas")
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se faire pincer
Definition
to get nabbed, caught
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