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1 préau
masculine noun[d'école] covered playground* * *pl préaux pʀeo nom masculin ( d'école) covered playground; ( de prison) exercise yard; (d'hôpital, de cloître) inner courtyard* * *pʀeopréaux pl nm1) [école] covered playground2) [monastère, prison] inner courtyard* * *préau, pl préaux nm ( d'école) covered playground; ( de prison) exercise yard; (d'hôpital, de cloître) inner courtyard.( pluriel masculin préaux) [preo] nom masculin[d'une école] covered part of the playground[d'un pénitencier] yard[d'un cloître] inner courtyard -
2 fosse
n. f. La fosse aux ours (Prison slang): The exercise yard. -
3 queue
n. f.1. 'Prick', 'cock', penis.2. Queue de cervelas (Prison slang): Monotonous daily walk round the exercise-yard.3. A la queue-leu-leu: In close single-file. ( Marcher à la queue-leu-leu evokes the image of elephants filing past in a trunk-to-tail chain.)4. Faire des queues: To be unfaithful to one's spouse.5. Laisser une queue (in hotel, restaurant): To leave without paying the bill.6. Bouffer des queues de cerises: To be down on one's luck (literally to be so impoverished that any foodstuff will do).7. Faire une queue de poisson (of vehicle): To cut in (in front of another, after having overtaken).8. Finir en queue de poisson (of play, musical piece, story): To come to an abrupt and unexpected end.
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