Vocabulary
première
premiere, première; first (new event, something never done before); the penultimate year of lycée; first, first gear; first class (public transport)
Noun
étrenner
to use/wear for the first time, to premiere; (of clothes) to break in; (figurative) to unveil, introduce; to be the guinea pig
Verb
CPM
PMO (Prime Minister's Office); initialism of cabinet de la première ministre f; PMO (Prime Minister's Office); initialism of cabinet du premier ministre m
Noun
Grande Noirceur
Grande Noirceur (a period in the history of Quebec during the second Union Nationale government of Premier Maurice Duplessis between 1944 and 1959, marked by economic liberalism, union busting, and Roman Catholic Church control of provincial education, healthcare and social services)
Name
Boubou Macoutes
the popular nickname of special inspectors who knocked on doors of suspected welfare cheats in Quebec during the second government of Premier Robert Bourassa, in the 1990s
Name
premier venu
the first person that comes along; the man in the street, the average person; everyone, anyone
Noun
premier amour
first love (one's first experience of the feeling of romantic love); first love (first person to be the object of one's romantic affection); first love (thing, place, or activity of which one is fondest; one's most fundamental interest or attachment)
Noun
premier maître
Military rank used in Francophone navies usually equivalent to the army rank of adjudant or the United States Navy rank of senior chief petty officer; first master
Noun
premier de cordée
lead climber, climber in lead, leader; trailblazer; most wealthy person or country, any entity at the top of the economic ladder
Noun
premiers entre eux
relatively prime, coprime (having no positive integer factors in common aside from 1)
Adjective
premier maître de deuxième classe
chief petty officer second class (rank in the Royal Canadian Navy)
Noun