Vocabulary
aux
Contraction of à + les ('to the' or 'of the')
jusqu'aux
jusque + aux
enchères
an auction (always plural - enchères - when used in this sense in French. shortened from vente aux enchères)
Noun
basque
skirt, skirts (of a jacket, morning coat etc.); basque (of waistcoat); coattail (as in: coller aux basques, lâcher les basques); A women’s coattail; Basque (the language of the Basque people)
Noun
brocante
synonym of marché aux puces: flea market; market for bric-à-brac; car boot sale; jumble sale
Noun
khâgne
the second year course, preceded by hypokhâgne, of a two-year academic cycle in France (called Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles, Humanities section) whose aim is to prepare students for the entrance competition to the École normale supérieure in Paris
Noun
hypokhâgne
the first year course, followed by khâgne, of the two-year academic cycle in France (called Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles, Humanities section) whose aim is to prepare students for the entrance competition of the École normale supérieure in Paris
Noun
Victoriatown
Victoriatown (a former Irish neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada). synonym of Village-aux-Oies (“Goose Village”)
Name
marché d'antan
antiques market, antique market, a market for antiques; flea market; synonym of marché aux puces
Noun
Fontenay-aux-Roses
Fontenay-aux-Roses (a town and commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department, France)
Name
Channel-Port aux Basques
Channel-Port aux Basques; alternative form of Channel-Port-aux-Basques (“Channel–Port-aux-Basques”)
Name
buddleia du père David
synonym of arbre aux papillons (“butterfly bush”) (Buddleja davidii Franch.)
Noun
auxiliaire
a helping verb, an auxiliary verb (verb that, having lost its literal meaning, joins itself to a certain form of another verb, for example to a past participle, to show a grammatical feature such as tense, voice, aspect, etc. In French, avoir and être are tense auxiliaries)
Noun
auxdits
contraction of à + lesdits
auxdites
contraction of à + lesdites
aux frais de la princesse
for free, at the company's or at the taxpayer's expense
Prepositional phrase