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baignoire: bath (British), bathtub, tub (especially US)
baiji: baiji, Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer)
bail: lease (contract); yonks, ages
bail: thing, stuff, affair
baille: tub; water
bailler: to give; to lend; to rent, lease
bailleur: a landowner who let uncultivated parcels of land to a lessee in a crop-sharing system in early Middle Ages; a lessor in general
bailleur de fonds: backer, funder, sponsor (one who supports an enterprise by funding it)
bailleur social: an agent who deals with lease contracts for social housing; a social landlord
bailli: a bailiff: an appointee of the king administering certain districts of northern France in the medieval period
bailliage: bailiwick
bailliager: bailiwick
baillival: bailiff
baillive: female equivalent of bailli: a bailiff's wife; madam of a brothel, whoremistress
bain: bath
bain bouillonnant: synonym of jacuzzi
bain de bouche: mouth bath (act of soaking or washing one's mouth); mouthwash, gargling fluid (liquid used to clean one's mouth)
bain de foule: walkabout
bain de glace: ice bath; polar bear plunge, polar bear swim
bain de minuit: midnight swim, midnight bath (where skinny dipping generally takes place)
bain de pieds: footbath (the act of soaking or washing the feet)
bain de sang: bloodbath, bloodshed
bain de soleil: a sunbath
bain de vapeur: steam bath
bain tourbillon: synonym of jacuzzi
bain turc: Turkish bath
bain-douche: showerbath
bain-douche: for use with either a bath or a shower
bain-marie: double boiler, bain-marie (hot water bath made out of two containers)
baisable: fuckable, sexually desirable
baisage: fuck (act of copulation)
baise: kiss; fuck, fucking (sexual intercourse)
baise-en-ville: overnight bag
baisemain: in feudalism, homage which the vassal used to give to the fief seigneur, by kissing his hand; polite manner to greet or leave a lady, by kissing her hand, hand-kissing
baisement: kissing; fucking
baiser: to kiss; to fuck, screw; to prevail over someone, fuck, screw; to break, deteriorate, to fuck up
baiser: kiss
baiser comme un lapin: to have sex quickly, in a short space of time
baiser de la mort: kiss of death
baiseur: kisser (one who kisses); shagger (one who shags)
baisodrome: love nest, fuckpad
baisoter: to smother with kisses; kiss to death
baisse: drop; decrease
baisse de régime: slowdown, downturn
baisse de tension: drop in blood pressure
baissement: lowering
baisser: to lower; to turn down (as a volume/setting); to go down, fall; to fail; to lower oneself; to bend over
baisser d'un ton: to lower one's voice, to keep it down
baisser de rideau: final curtain (the last time the curtain is lowered, after a performance and any curtain calls); final curtain (the end to something that has lasted for a long time)
baisser la garde: to lower one's guard
baisser le rideau: to draw the curtains, to ring down the curtain; to close down, to close up shop
baisser les bras: to give up; to stop trying
baissier: bear (investor who anticipates falling prices)
baissier: bearish (of a market)
baissoir: salt water tank
baisé: lame; damaged, destroyed; incredible, overpowered
baisé: crazy man
bajoue: jowl; chubby cheek
bajoyer: a sturdy wall of a river or canal either next to a bridge or in a lock
bakchich: baksheesh