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feasting 358<br />

feasting: bombance; ripaille<br />

feat of skill: tour<br />

features, not the same in all: facies<br />

feeble: fiacco<br />

feeling: Empfindung; Gefühl<br />

pleasant ~: Wohlgefühl<br />

fees, professional: honoraires<br />

feet go where heart wills: là vâo os<br />

felicity of expression: curiosa<br />

fellow<br />

good ~: bon enfant<br />

good-natured ~: bonhomme<br />

jolly ~: ein lustiger<br />

noisy ~: tapageur<br />

sharp-witted ~: èpice; fine èpice<br />

feminine, eternal: das Ewig-Weibliche;<br />

Ewig-Weibliche<br />

fence gracefully: avoir les armes<br />

fencing: escrime<br />

~ foil: fleuret<br />

~ master: maître<br />

~ position: quarte<br />

fennel: fenouil<br />

fern: capillaire<br />

ferociously: fieramente<br />

fertilizer: guano<br />

festival: fête; jour<br />

outdoor ~: fête<br />

few<br />

~ know how to be old: peu de gens<br />

~ men are missed: que son<br />

select ~: élite<br />

fibers, transverse nerve: pons<br />

fictions please if they resemble truth:<br />

ficta<br />

fidelity<br />

~ <strong>and</strong> confidence: fide et fiducia<br />

~ <strong>and</strong> fortitude: fide et fortitudine<br />

~ <strong>and</strong> justice: fides et<br />

~ is of God: fidélité<br />

field: campo; pole<br />

~ of granular snow: névé<br />

field marshal: maréchal<br />

wife of ~: maréchale<br />

fields, where are those: O ubi<br />

fierce: acerbus<br />

fife: piffero<br />

fighter<br />

partisan ~: guerrilla<br />

prudent ~ takes foe seriously: kein<br />

kluger<br />

fig paste: loukoum<br />

figure: Staffage<br />

show off one's ~ : poser<br />

squat ~: taille<br />

figured: chiffré<br />

fillet: filet<br />

veal ~: rouelle<br />

filling: remplissage<br />

filth: saloperie<br />

finally: en somme<br />

fingers, plucked by the: pizzicato<br />

finicky: chercher<br />

finished: pau<br />

it is ~: consummatum<br />

fire: faire feu; feu; fuego; fuoco<br />

between ~s: entre deux<br />

~ extinguisher: extincteur<br />

~ not extinguished by ~: il fuoco<br />

~ poked with a sword: ττνρ<br />

μαχαίρα (pur makhaíra)<br />

~ screen: garde-feu<br />

~ tests gold: ignis aurum<br />

light a ~: faire du feu<br />

never set the world on ~: il n'a pas<br />

poetic ~: estro<br />

scathing ~: feu<br />

spread like wild ~: virum<br />

under ~: en fuego; fuego<br />

with ~: con fuoco<br />

firearms: armes à feu<br />

fireman: pompiere<br />

fireworks: feu<br />

firmness: constantia; fermeté<br />

be firm: soyez<br />

firm of purpose: propositi; tenax<br />

propositi<br />

first: come prima; primo<br />

easily ~: facile princeps<br />

~ among her equals: prima inter<br />

~ among his equals: primus<br />

~ born: erstgeboren<br />

~ come, first served: prior; sero<br />

venientibus<br />

~ consider, then venture: erst wägen<br />

~ do no harm: primum non<br />

~ in order: imprimis<br />

~ of the season: primeur<br />

~ performance: première<br />

~ thing known: primum cognitum<br />

~ time: prima; tempo; volta<br />

<strong>from</strong> the ~: a primo<br />

fish: machhli; poisson<br />

flounder: carrelet<br />

flying ~: volador<br />

parrot ~: vieja<br />

plaice: plie<br />

shad: alose

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