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1 nuée d'orage
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2 nuée
nuée [nye]feminine noun[d'insectes] cloud ; [de personnes] horde* * *nye1) ( multitude) ( d'insectes) swarm; ( de personnes) horde2) Météorologie dense cloud [U]* * *nɥe nfune nuée de [personnes, sauterelles] — a swarm of, [moineaux] a flock of
* * *nuée nf2 Météo dense cloud ¢.nuée ardente Météo nuée ardente.[nɥe] nom fémininnuée d'orage storm cloud, thundercloudnuée de paparazzi/d'admirateurs a horde of paparazzi/admirersnuée d'insectes horde ou swarm of insects3. JOAILLERIE cloud -
3 sale
sale [sal]1. adjectivea. ( = crasseux) dirty• sale comme un cochon or un porc filthyb. ( = douteux) [blanc, gris] dirty• avoir une sale tête or gueule (inf: inf!) ( = sembler malade) to look awful ; ( = sembler antipathique) to be nasty-looking• faire une sale tête ( = être mécontent) to look furious• il a fait une sale tête ( = il était dépité) his face fell• faire le sale travail or boulot (inf) to do the dirty work2. masculine noun• aller/être au sale to go/be in the wash* * *sal
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1) (after n) ( pas propre) dirty; ( obscène) dirty2) (colloq) (before n) ( désagréable) [individu] horrible; [bête, maladie, affaire, habitude] nasty; [temps] foul, horrible; [travail, endroit] rotten; offensive dirtyil a une sale tête — ( antipathique) he's got a nasty face; ( maladif) he looks dreadful
un sale coup — lit, fig a very nasty blow
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nom masculin••être sale comme un peigne or un cochon — to be filthy dirty
* * *sal adj1) (= souillé) dirty2) fig (avant le nom) (affaire, coup) nasty* * *A adj2 (before n) ( désagréable) [individu] horrible; [bête, maladie, affaire, habitude] nasty; [temps] filthy; [métier, travail, endroit] rotten; offensive dirty; quel sale gosse○! what a horrible brat○!; sale menteur! you dirty liar!; quel sale bled○! what a dump○!; il a une sale tête or gueule◑ ( antipathique) he's got a nasty face; ( maladif) he looks dreadful; ( mécontent) he's pulling GB ou making US an awful face; faire une sale tête to pull GB ou make US an awful face; l'événement fut un sale coup pour lui the event dealt him a very nasty blow; jouer un sale tour à qn to play a dirty trick on sb; elle a vraiment un sale caractère she's got a foul temper; j'ai passé un sale quart d'heure or de sales moments I had a pretty grim time (of it).être sale comme un peigne or un cochon to be filthy dirty.[sal] adjectifoh que tu es sale! [à un enfant] you mucky pup!il est sale comme un cochon ou peigne ou porc he's filthy dirty2. [salissant] dirtyelle a un sale caractère she has a filthy ou rotten temperquel sale temps! what rotten ou foul weather!a. [insecte] nasty creature, creepy crawly (humoristique)b. [personne] nasty character ou piece of work (UK)b. [renfrogné] he's got a face like a thundercloud this morningquand je vais lui dire, il va faire une sale tête he's not going to be very pleased when I tell him————————[sal] nom masculin et féminin[personne] dirty person————————[sal] nom masculin
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