 | French | English | |
 | à compter de {prep} [à partir de telle date] | from [a specific date or period in history] | |
| Partial Matches |
| hist. la Reconquista {f} [la Reconquête] | The Reconquista [period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula between the Battle of Covadonga (718 or 722) and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada in 1492] | |
| hist. mil. naut. bataille {f} de la baie de Manille [1898] [aussi : bataille de Cavite] | Battle of Manila Bay [1898] [first major engagement of the Spanish–American War, ending the Spanish colonial period in Philippine history] [also: Battle of Cavite] | |
| visiter (qn./qc.) | to visit (sb./sth.) [when a person, a visit to a sick person or prisoner by a doctor or priest, not a social visit] | |
| édition journ. glose {f} | gloss [brief note on sth. in the margin or between lines in a text] | |
| écon. débâcle {f} [ruine] | crash [sudden failure or value loss of a market or a business, e.g. a bank] | |
| antidater qc. | to predate sth. [affix a prior date to a letter, etc.] | |
| paradoxalement {adv} | contrarily [in a contrary or opposite way] | |
| maintenir qc. en équilibre | to balance sth. [put or keep in a position] | |
| géogr. Grisonne {f} [femme du canton suisse des Grisons] | [a female from or living in the Grisons] | |
| géogr. Grison {m} [homme du canton suisse des Grisons] | [a male from or living in the Grisons] | |
| familier {m} | regular [e.g. in a pub or restaurant] | |
| familière {f} | regular [female] [e.g. in a pub or restaurant] | |
| à compter de | with effect from [+date] | |
| arch. mil. contrescarpe {f} | counterscarp [outer side of a ditch or moat used in fortifications] | |
| arch. mil. escarpement {m} | scarp [inner side of a ditch or moat used in fortifications] | |
| un certain {pron} | some [a specific amount of] | |
| s'acharner contre qn./qc. [victime] | to bear down on sb./sth. [approach in a determined or threatening manner] | |
| s'acharner sur qn./qc. [victime] | to bear down on sb./sth. [approach in a determined or threatening manner] | |
| auto comm. occup. concessionnaire {m} automobile | car dealer [for a specific manufacturer] | |
| hist. vêt. poulaine {f} | Pointed toe of a shoe [a style fashionable in the 14 and 15C ] [also a shoe in such a style] | |
| ethn. géogr. domien {m} | [French citizen who lives in, or comes from, a Département d'Outre-Mer] | |
| géogr. hist. Dauphiné {m} [aussi : Dauphiné de Viennois] | Dauphiné [also: Dauphiny or Dauphiné of Viennois ] [a former province in southeastern France] | |
| auto comm. occup. concessionnaire {f} automobile | car dealer [for a specific manufacturer] [female] | |
| ethn. géogr. domienne {f} | [female French citizen who lives in, or comes from, a Département d'Outre-Mer] | |
| cuis. spéculoos {m} [spéculos, spéculaus] | [spiced biscuit in the shape of a human or other figure, eaten at Christmas] | |
| cuis. méchoui {m} | [whole sheep or lamb spit-roasted on a barbecue - popular dish in North Africa] | |
| ling. corpus {m} | corpus [collection of writings on a specific subject] | |
| cuis. flan {m} pâtissier nature | [traditional preparation found in French patisseries, a base to which you can add fruit or other ingredients] | |
| assigner qc. [date, limite] | to fix sth. [e.g. a date] | |
| cuis. quiche {f} lorraine | [French tart with a filling made of cream, eggs, and bacon or ham, in an open pastry case] | |
| poser qn. un lapin [loc.] | to stand sb. up [not show up for a date] | |
| adm. pol. durée {f} du mandat | tenure [period in office] | |
| adm. pol. durée {f} du mandat | term [period in office] | |
| creux {adj} [période] | fallow [fig.] [of a period, inactive] | |
| cuis. bouillon {m} [établissement] | [traditional (late 19c or early 20c), spacious restaurant that usually serves traditional French cuisine, in particular a Bouillon (broth)] | |
| depuis toujours {adv} | always [throughout a long period of the past] | |
| cuis. cinq à sept {m} [can.] [fam.] | afternoon get-together [in Quebec] [similar to a happy hour, cocktail party, or wine and cheese, held approximately between 5 and 7 p.m.] | |
| lèse-majesté {f} | [offense against a sovereign; or, more generally, any slight or insult that wounds someone's dignity.] | |
| tech. jacquemart {m} | bell-striker [animated, mechanised figure of a person which strikes the hours on a bell with a hammer. Usually part of clocks or clocktowers] | |
| depuis {prep} | for [period of time in the past] | |
| arch. arts relig. retable {m} | altarpiece [structure placed on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church] | |
| arch. arts relig. retable {m} | reredos [structure placed on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church] | |
| arch. arts relig. retable {m} | retable [structure placed on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church] | |
| redonner dans qc. | to relapse into sth. [return to a less active or a worse state] | |
| traverser qc. [région] | to go through sth. [e.g. a river or road through a region] | |
| hist. pol. Bulle {f} d'or (de 1356) [aussi : bulle d'or de Nuremberg ou bulle d'or de Metz] | Golden Bull of 1356 [a decree which fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, important aspects of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire] | |
| décrocher qc. | to unhook sth. [e.g., a wagon or take a phone off the hook] | |
| se brouiller avec qn. (à cause de qc.) [se disputer] | to quarrel (with sb. about sth.) [over a long period of time] | |
| sport évoluer [fig.] [jouer] | to play [as a team player in a club, etc.] | |
