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beach volley: beach volleyball
beagle: beagle (dog)
beatbox: beatbox
beatnik: beatnik
beau: handsome, fine, attractive; nice; fair (weather)
beau: boyfriend
beau: in vain
beau comme le jour: very beautiful
beau comme un cœur: pretty as a picture, cute as a button
beau comme un dieu: Extremely good-looking and attractive; like a Greek god
beau gosse: good-looking guy, hot guy, handsome man, hunk
beau joueur: good loser, good sport
beau monde: beau monde, beautiful people, smart set, high society
beau parleur: sweet-talker, smooth talker, charmer, persuader, silver-tongued devil
beau rôle: the better part, the easy position, the plum role
beau sexe: (the) fair sex (womankind)
beau-dabe: synonym of beau-père
beau-fils: a stepson, a son of the present spouse of its remarried parent; a son-in-law, the husband of one's daughter or son
beau-frère: brother-in-law (brother of one's wife); brother-in-law (brother of one's husband); brother-in-law (husband of one's sister); brother-in-law (husband of one's brother)
beau-neveu: stepnephew; nephew-in-law
beau-papa: synonym of beau-père
beau-parent: in-law
beau-père: a father-in-law, the father of one's spouse; a stepfather, stepdad, the present husband of the mother of a child from a previous marriage
beauceron: of the Beauce
beaucoup: much, very much, a lot; very
beaucoup de bruit pour rien: much ado about nothing
beauf: brother-in-law; boor, yokel
beaufort: Beaufort cheese
beaujolais: of Beaujeu
beaujolais: a red wine from Burgundy, France
beaupré: bowsprit
beauté: beauty
beauvaisien: of Beauvais
beaux arts: alternative spelling of beaux-arts
beaux jours: time when the weather is good, warm days, spring, summer
beaux-arts: the fine arts
beaux-parents: in-laws, parents-in-law
bec: beak, bill (of a bird); mouthpiece; fipple; mouth; kiss
bec Bunsen: Bunsen burner
bec de gaz: gaslight (lamp)
bec et ongles: tooth and nail, hammer and tongs
bec sucré: sweet tooth (liking for foods that are sweet; a weakness for sweets); sweet tooth (someone with a liking for sweet foods)
bec verseur: pouring spout, pouring lip, pourer, dispenser nozzle
bec-croche: white ibis
bec-croisé: crossbill
bec-de-cane: a type of latch
bec-de-lièvre: cleft lip; harelip
bec-en-sabot: Balaeniceps, a monotypic genus of wading bird from the family Balaenicipitidae, of which the only living species is the shoebill
bec-en-sabot du Nil: shoebill
because: synonym of parce que (“because”)
because: synonym of à cause de (“because of”)
becfigue: ortolan (a small bird eaten as a delicacy)
becquer: to peck (all senses)
becquerel: becquerel
becquet: spoiler (on a car)
becquetage: pecking
becquetance: food, nourishment
becqueter: to peck (at); to eat, nosh, chow down; to peck (kiss)
becqueté: pecked, eaten
becqué: beaked (having a beak of a different colour)