Category Archives: French

doublage (m) = dubbing (de film) désalpe (f) = process of bringing cattle down from the high Alps for winter (we actually have festivals dedicated to this!)  démailloter = to take the swaddling clothes off No one can complain that … Continue reading →

The words of the day come from a sign on the door of our building, which forbids: colportage (m) = hawking, peddling mendicité (m) = begging

Today is a D kind of day: daube (f) = stew, casserole dauber = to braise, but also to jeer! dicton (m) = saying, dictum

C is for: coupe-cigare (m) = cigar cutter crise des larmes (f) = crying fit colocataire (f) = roommate

Today’s B words: bague (f) = ring babiole (f) = trinket or knicknack hmmm, but then there’s bagatelle (f) = small thing, trinket