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champoreau: a mixture of coffee and wine (or other alcohol)
champs Élysiens: Elysian Fields (Elysium; home of the blessed, after death)
champs Élysées: Elysian Fields (Elysium; home of the blessed, after death)
champtocéen: of Champtocé-sur-Loire
champêtre: countryside; rural
chamsin: khamsin
chamérops: a dwarf palm tree (Chamaerops humilis)
chance: chance; luck; Immigrant of non-European heritage, short for "chance pour la France".
chance de cocu: luck of the devil, luck of the Irish
chancel: chancel
chancelant: tottering, staggering, faltering; shaky; hazy, unclear; unresolved
chanceler: to stagger, totter, reel; to wobble; to falter, waver (of resolve etc.)
chancelier: chancellor
chancellerie: chancellery
chanceux: with good luck; fortunate
chancir: to rot, to mould
chancre: lobster, crab; canker, chancre
chandail: sweater, jumper; T-shirt
chandelier: candlestick; chandelier
chandelier: candlemaker
chandelle: a (tallow) candle; any candle; candlelight; enlightenment; a jack stand
chanfrein: chamfer, bevel (obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge)
chanfrein: chamfron, chamfrein (protective armor for horse's head)
change: exchange
changeable: changeable (capable of being changed)
changeant: changeable (tending to change suddenly or quickly)
changement: change
changement climatique: climate change
changement de paradigme: paradigm shift (change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new one, necessitated by scientific discoveries)
changer: to exchange (something); to change (money, a job, one's circumstances etc.); to change, alter (something en into); to change (a diaper); to change
changer d'air: to have a change of scenery, to get a change of air
changer d'avis: to change one's mind
changer d'avis comme de chemise: to flip-flop, to chop and change
changer de bord: to change sides, to box the compass; to switch teams (to change one's sexual orientation)
changer de cheval au milieu du gué: to change horses in midstream
changer de crèmerie: alternative spelling of changer de crémerie
changer de crémerie: to take one's business elsewhere, to take one's custom elsewhere (to go elsewhere, especially in another restaurant, bar, etc.)
changer de disque: to change the record
changer de mains: to change hands
changer de refrain: to change one's tune, to start singing a different tune
changer de registre: to change one's attitudes; to change one's tune
changer la donne: to change the game, to make a big difference, to be a game changer, to change everything
changer son fusil d'épaule: to change tack, change one's tune (change ideas)
changeur: changer; money changer; changer
chanlatte: double lath, tilting lath; arris fillet, tilting fillet, eaves lath
chanmax: synonym of chanmé (“excellent, very enjoyable, wicked”)
chanmé: méchant, evil or wicked; excellent, very enjoyable, wicked
chanoine: canon (type of clergymember)
chanson: song
chanson de geste: chanson de geste
chanson française: a specific style of lyric-driven French pop music which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s; a song belonging to this genre
chanson à boire: drinking song
chansonner: to be satirized in song
chansonnette: chansonnette
chansonnier: songbook, chansonnier
chansonnier: singer, chansonnier
chant: singing (act of using the voice to produce musical sounds); song
chant du cygne: swan song
chant grégorien: Gregorian chant
chantable: (singing) singable, cantabile