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cagette: carton, (small) crate (or similar packaging); punnet
cagibi: storeroom (small rooms without windows); cubbyhole
cagliaritain: of Cagliari
cagna: dugout
cagnard: cowardly; lazy
cagnard: coward; lazy person; suntrap (warm place that captures the heat of the sun); extreme heat
cagnarder: to be lazy
cagneux: knock-kneed (having the knees abnormally close together)
cagnotte: pool, pot (of money, for distribution)
cagole: an extravagant and attention-seeking woman
cagot: Cagot; sanctimonious person, hypocrite, egotist
cagot: sanctimonious
cagotement: sanctimoniously
cagoterie: a quarter of a town to which cagots were restricted
cagou: a beggar who lives by himself; a high-ranking criminal who teaches others the language and practice of the criminal trade
cagou: kagu
cagou: out of sorts, sickly looking, languid
cagouille: snail
cagoulard: cagoulard
cagoule: cowl; balaclava
cagouler: to wear a balaclava
cagoules noires: black bloc
cagoulé: masked by a balaclava
caguer: to defecate
cahba: prostitute
cahier: notebook, exercise book; quire
cahier de textes: homework notebook
cahier des charges: specifications, specs, requirements; brief
cahin-caha: hobbling along
cahors: a red wine from Cahors
cahot: jolt, bump
cahotant: jolting
cahotement: jerk; jolt
cahoter: to bump, jolt; to jolt along, bounce along
cahoteux: bumpy; jolty
cahoua: alternative spelling of caoua: coffee
cahute: shack, hut
cahutte: post-1990 spelling of cahute
caillage: curdling
caillant: freezing cold
caillassage: stoning
caillasse: Loose stones, gravel
caillasser: to stone (throw stones at)
caille: multicoloured, spotted
caille: quail
caille des blés: common quail
caille-lait: bedstraw (plant of the genus Galium)
cailleau: frogfruit, fogfruit (Phyla nodiflora); wild sage, lantana (Lantana camara)
caillebotis: hatch cover; duckboard
caillebotte: a type of fresh curd cheese or junket produced on the Atlantic coast of France
caillement: curdling
cailler: to curdle, clot; to be very cold, to be brass monkeys; to be very cold, to freeze
caillera: rabble, riffraff, thug
cailleter: to gossip, chew the cud
caillette: abomasum; curd (of milk to make cheese); frivolous gossiping woman
caillot: clot; curd
caillou: gravel, small stone; head
caillouter: to metal (a road)
caillouteux: stony, pebbly
cailloutis: gravel