Words 1701–1800
librairie
library (institution which holds books for use by the public); library (collection of books); bookshop, bookstore (shop that sells books); tobacconist's (shop that sells books, newspapers, cigarettes, snacks and other various items); library (collection of software routines)
Noun
mater
to checkmate; to suppress, quell (a revolution, person, insurrection); to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)
Verb
barbe
beard; longer hair growing on the chin or face of some animals; barbel (whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish); barb (feather); barb (hair or bristle); a boring thing, a drag; Barbary horse
Noun
tarder
to tarry; to be slow to do something (tarder à faire quelque chose); Used as an impersonal verb with de or que to express impatience.
Verb
plastique
material that can be moulded into a desired form, plastic; a synthetic hydrocarbon-based polymer, plastic; the shape of a human body, physique; formal beauty; the plastic arts, sculpture
Noun
tache
blot, stain or smear; spot; more or less stain-like mark of a different color; blotch, mark; moral depravation; annoying or despicable person
Noun
amant
lover (one who loves a particular person); lover (one who loves a particular thing, pursuit, etc.); lover (participant in an extramarital or otherwise illicit romantic or sexual affair)
Noun
enfoncer
to push in, to press in, to drive in; to break open, to break down; to defeat, to thrash; to sink down; to bury oneself; to immerse oneself; to go into the heart (of a region, country etc.); to give in; to yield (before power)
Verb
vive
any of certain kind of fish, mostly in the family Trachinidae, but especially the sand tilefish (Malacanthus plumieri) or the Guinean weever (Trachinus armatus) From FishBase
Noun
écouler
to sell off, to shift; to flow; to disband, to scatter; to pass, to elapse; to diminish, to dwindle away slowly
Verb
manteau
coat; mantle (garment worn by Orthodox bishops); mantle; mantle (of molluscs); pavilion; mantel (of a fireplace)
Noun
champagne
champagne (“wine from the Champagne region of France”); sparkling wine, generic champagne; base; bottom third of a coat of arms; an expanse of flat and open cultivated earth
Noun
cuir
leather; a speech error consisting of incorrectly inserting a /t/ as a liaison between two words
Noun