Français 2013 Jean de Florette (vocabulaire supplémentaire pp.262-290)

anneau - ring

balancier (m) - pendulum

basculer - to topple, to tip

boudin (m) - roll

bourrage (m) - stuffing, filling

chèvre à trois pieds (f) - tripod (not a three-footed goat….)

carrier (m) - quarry worker

cheddite - explosive substance (named after a village in France where it was made)

cormier - name of a tree

défiler - to parade; to go/pass by

le deuil - mourning

Durance - name of a French river, a tributary of the Rhône

couture (f) - seam

égout (m) - sewer

éclat - fragment, splinter

écorchure (f) - scrape, graze

effacer - to erase, obliterate

l’étui (m) - case (for glasses, pencils etc.)

le fourmi - ant

le gisant - recumbent figure

gousset - fob, gusset

l’hypothèque (f) - mortgage

s’imposer - to be unavoidable, inevitable, necessary

s’incliner - to bend, lean

interdit - speechless

l’itinéraire (m) - route

manigances (f.pl) - schemes, tricks

maquillage (m) - make up

maquignon (m) - horse dealer

minutieux - meticulous, minutely detailed

minutieusement - meticulously

mirliton - reed pipe, novelty whistle, gazoo

se passer de - to do without

perplexe - puzzled, confused

pissenlit (m) - dandelion

poulie (f) - pulley

préambule - preamble, introduction

rosse - nag

râtissé - raked; cleaned out

rayonner - to beam (happiness), radiate

la repère - land-mark, reference point

se signer - to make the sign of the cross

terreux, terreuse - earthy, muddy

trousse (la) - instrument case; ‘black bag’

voile (m) - veil