Vocabulary
grenade
pomegranate; grenade; insignia, badge; pomegranate (Grenade de guerre is used in French to describe a grenade in English heraldry)
Noun
salement
dirty, dirtily; Intensitive adverb : very, really. (in a bad way) "J'ai été salement amoché par une crise néphrétique" (André Gide, Letters) : "I've been really banged-up by renal crisis"; Related to the precedent (antiphrasis) : very, really (in a good way) " Faut acheter des sardines … C'est salement bon !" (Louis Pergaud, La Guerre des boutons) : "We got to buy sardines … It's really good !"
Adverb
guerre chaude
hot war (conflict in which actual fighting takes place between the belligerent parties)
Noun
guerre froide
cold war (period of hostile relations between rivals where direct open warfare between them is largely undesired and avoided)
Noun
guerre de conquête
war of conquest (military conflict where one state, nation, or people conquers or attempts to conquer another)
Noun
guerre du Pacifique
the Pacific War (Pacific theatre of World War II); the War of the Pacific (war between Bolivia, Chile and Peru)
Name
guerre de succession
war of succession (war prompted by a succession crisis in which two or more individuals claim the right of successor to a deceased or deposed monarch)
Noun
guerre de la Conquête
French and Indian War; the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War between France, the British Empire and their respective Indigenous/Native American allies, which occured between 1755 and 1763, and led to the conquest of New France and its cession to Britain and Spain.
Name