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chantage: blackmail, shakedown (threat to obtain some advantage)
chantant: singsong, melodious
chantefable: chantefable
chanter: to sing; to crow
chanter comme un rossignol: to sing very well, to be a very good singer
chanter comme une casserole: to be unable to carry a tune in a bucket (to sing very badly)
chanter comme une seringue: (singing) To sing very badly; to be unable to carry a tune in a bucket
chanter la Marseillaise en breton: to be drunk
chanter la messe en breton: to read someone the riot act, to chew someone out [with à] (to give someone a severe scolding, to fiercely reprimand someone)
chanter la pomme: to seduce someone (or attempt to do so) by words or lyrics
chanter les louanges: to sing the praises of
chanterelle: chanterelle
chanterelle: chanterelle (highest string of the violin or similar instrument)
chanterelle orangée: A false chanterelle, Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca.
chanteur: that sings
chanteur: (male) singer
chanteuse: female singer, songstress
chantier: building site; worksite; passage; jumble, mess; workcamp (for volunteers)
chantier naval: dockyard, shipyard
chantilly: Chantilly cream
chantonnement: hum; humming
chantonner: to sing or hum (to oneself)
chantoung: shantung
chantre: singer, songster; cantor; bard, minstrel; figurehead; champion; advocate
chanturgue: a red wine from the Auvergne
chanvre: hemp
chanvre de Manille: Manila hemp (the fibre of the abaca)
chanvrier: Of or pertaining to hemp.
chanvrier: a worker who prepares hemp
chanvrière: female equivalent of chanvrier; A field for the cultivation of hemp.
chançard: lucky
chaos: chaos
chaotique: chaotic
chaotiquement: chaotically
chaouch: chiaus; a service industry worker
chaouch: alternative letter-case form of Chaouch (“a cultivar of vinifera grape”)
chaouche: archaic spelling of chaouch (“chiaus”)
chaoui: Berber (language)
chaoui: Berber (relating to people who speak the Berber language)
chaoui: raccoon, coon
chaouin: a form of French spoken in Quebec
chapardage: pilfering (petty theft)
chaparder: to pinch, pilfer
chapardeur: pilferer (petty thief); sticky fingers (habit of pilfering)
chape: cape, cloak; cope, cappa (ceremonial cape); gin block; tread (of tyre); clevis
chapeau: hat; introductory text; lead of an article; cap (of a mushroom)
chapeau: Used to express appreciation: hats off
chapeau bas: hats off
chapeau claque: opera hat
chapeau de fer: a chapel de fer helmet: a kettle hat
chapeau melon: bowler hat
chapeauter: to hat (put a hat on someone); to head (be in control of something)
chapelain: chaplain
chapelain: of any of several places in France with Chapelle as part of its name
chapelet: wreath (of flowers); rosary, prayer beads; string, hatful (of objects, ideas etc.)
chapelet thaï: (set of) anal beads
chapelier: hatter (person who makes, sells, or repairs hats)
chapelle: chapel; covering for the head
chapellerie: headwear; hat shop; hat trade
chapelure: (dried) breadcrumb(s)