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baste
noun, feminine
basque (clothing)
basterne
noun, masculine
mule cart
bastiais
adjective
of Bastia
bastide
noun, feminine
bastide (mansion in Provence); bastide (new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries)
bastidon
noun, masculine
a small house, typical of Provence
bastille
noun, feminine
fortress
bastiment
noun, masculine
archaic spelling of bâtiment
basting
noun, masculine
a joist used to carry other planks of wood
bastingage
noun, masculine
rail
bastion
noun, masculine
bastion; stronghold
bastionner
verb
to bulwark
bastionné
adjective
bastioned
baston
noun, feminine
scrap, fight
bastonnade
noun, feminine
caning, any beating with a stick; specifically, falaka (oriental beating of the soles of the feet)
bastonner
verb
to cane; to beat with a stick; to pummel, to batter
bastos
noun, feminine
bullet; projectile of a firearm
bastringue
noun, masculine
dance hall; din, racket, noise
basé
adjective
based
bat-flanc
noun, masculine
partition; bunk
bataclan
noun, masculine
embarrassing things; noises
bataille
noun, feminine
battle; war (card game)
bataille d'eau
noun, feminine
water fight
bataille navale
noun, feminine
naval battle (battle taking place at sea); battleship (guessing game played on grid paper)
bataille rangée
noun, feminine
pitched battle, set-piece battle
batailler
verb
to battle
batailleur
noun, masculine
fighter
batailleur
adjective
pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculent
bataillien
adjective
Bataillean
bataillon
noun, masculine
battalion
batara
noun, masculine
antshrike
batara luisant
noun, masculine
glossy antshrike (a passerine bird of the antbird family)
batardeau
noun, masculine
batardeau
batave
adjective
Batavian; Dutch (from the Netherlands)
batavia
noun, feminine
Batavia lettuce
batavique
adjective
Dutch (from the Netherlands)
batayole
noun, feminine
the upright of a railing (or the boss at the top of such an upright)
bateau
noun, masculine
a vessel of any size, a ship or boat
bateau
adjective
banal, unoriginal, hackneyed
bateau de plaisance
noun, masculine
pleasure craft, pleasure boat
bateau pilote
noun, masculine
pilot boat
bateau à vapeur
noun, masculine
steamboat
bateau-citerne
noun, masculine
tanker (ship)
bateau-feu
noun, masculine
lightship, lightvessel
bateau-lavoir
noun, masculine
a boat, moored on a riverbank, that functions as a laundry
bateau-mouche
noun, masculine
a tourist sightseeing-boat, used especially in Paris
bateau-phare
noun, masculine
lightship, lightvessel
bateau-pompe
noun, masculine
fireship
batelage
noun, masculine
boating, sailing, pilotage (driving a boat)
batelage
noun, masculine
conjuring; juggling
bateler
verb
to conjure (do magic tricks); to juggle
batelet
noun, masculine
a small boat
bateleur
noun, masculine
tumbler, juggler; acrobat; buffoon; bateleur eagle
batelier
noun, masculine
riverboatman
batellerie
noun, feminine
transport (of goods) via inland waterways
batelée
noun, feminine
boatload (a large quantity)
bath
noun, masculine
English high quality letter paper popular in the 19th century
bath
adjective
super, great, smashing; beautiful, fine, good, pleasant
bathmotrope
adjective
bathmotropic
bathochrome
adjective
bathochromic
bathyal
adjective
bathyal