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famille recomposée
noun, feminine
blended family (a stepfamily in which both new mates have one or more living kids from prior partners)
famine
noun, feminine
famine
famé
adjective
-reputed (having a specified reputation)
famélique
adjective
half-starved; scrawny
famélique
noun, masculine/feminine
starveling
fan
noun, masculine/feminine
fan (admirer, supporter)
fan
noun, feminine
fan (ventilator)
fanage
noun, masculine
tossing (of hay, grass)
fanal
noun, masculine
lantern; beacon, lamp (of a lighthouse); (by extension) lighthouse; headlight
fanatique
adjective
fanatic, fanatical
fanatique
noun, masculine/feminine
fanatic (one who is zealously enthusiastic); fanatic, zealot
fanatically
to fanaticize
fanatisme
noun, masculine
fanaticism (the characteristic or practice of being a fanatic)
fandango
noun, masculine
fandango
fandangue
noun, masculine
Francised form of fandango
fane
noun, feminine
dry leaf; the leaves attached to vegetables, but which are themselves not usually consumed, such as those of carrot, radishes and cauliflowers; the leaves of any vegetable which is not itself a leaf vegetable, and which are not usually attached to the edible part, such as those of potatoes, tomatoes and beans
faner
verb
to make hay; to toss, turn (grass, hay, etc.); to fade, to wilt; to fade, wither
faneur
noun, masculine
haymaker
faneuse
noun, feminine
female equivalent of faneur: female haymaker; tedder (machine for stirring and spreading hay, to facilitate its drying)
fanfare
noun, feminine
fanfare; marching band
fanfaron
adjective
boasting
fanfaron
noun, masculine
boaster
fanfaronnade
noun, feminine
bragging, boasting
to boast, swagger
fanfiction
noun, feminine
fan fiction
fanfreluche
noun, feminine
frill(s); decorative trimmings or embellishments
to decorate with frills
fange
noun, feminine
filth, mire; filth, baseness, debauchery; fen, swamp
fangeux
adjective
muddy, miry, filthy; abject
fangothérapie
noun, feminine
mud bath treatment
fanion
noun, masculine
fanion; pennant
fanon
noun, masculine
dewlap (pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, lizard, or other animal); wattle (wrinkled fold of skin hanging from the neck of a turkey or other bird); baleen plate; (in the plural) baleen (bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of a baleen whale); feather, feathering (long hair on the lower legs of a horse); bracelet on the right arm
fanonien
adjective
Fanonian
fanorona
noun, masculine
the national game of Madagascar, a board game similar to checkers / draughts
fantaisie
noun, feminine
fantasy (something fanciful); fantasy (something created by the imagination); idea, desire, feeling; imagination; fantasia
fantaisiste
adjective
fanciful
fantaisiste
noun, masculine
music hall / variety artist
fantascope
noun, masculine
synonym of fantasmascope
fantasia
noun, feminine
fantasia (African festival)
to imagine
fantasmagorie
noun, feminine
phantasmagoria
phantasmagoric
phantasmagorically
fantasmascope
noun, masculine
phenakistoscope
fantasmatique
adjective
fantastical; phantasmal
fantastically; phantasmally
fantasme
noun, masculine
fantasy; hallucination
to fantasise
fantasmé
adjective
fantasized, dreamt; chimeric
fantasque
adjective
capricious, unpredictable (character); whimsical, fanciful (story etc.)
capriciously; fancifully
fantassin
noun, masculine
foot soldier, infantryman
fantastique
adjective
fantastic (related to fantasy or fantasies); related to the fantastique genre.
fantastique
noun, masculine
A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.
fantastically (in a way related to fantasy)
fantasy
noun, feminine
fantasy (literary genre)
fantoche
noun, masculine
puppet
fantoche
adjective
manipulated
manipulatedly