‹ Choix de contes de Daudet; selected and edited, with notes and vocabularyChapitre 53 sur 55 · livre, m., book; grand · texte numérisé non relu

livre, m., book; grand

ledger.

livrée, /., livery.

livrer, to surrender, deliver.

locataire, m., tenant.

loger, to dwell, live.

logette, /., cell, small room.

logiquement, logically.

logis, m., home, lodging, dwelling.

loin, far; de — en — , at great intervais; at a distance from each other; au — , far away.

lointain, -e, distant.

long, m., length; le, au, — , along; tout de son — , at his full length; de — en large, up and down.

longer, to walk along.

longtemps, long time, long ago, at length.

longue (à la), in time, in the long run.

longuement, at length.

longueur,/., length.

loque,/., rag, tatter.

lorgnette,/., field-glass.

lors, then; pour — , then and there.

lorsque, when.

louage, m., letting out; bateaux de — , boats to let.

louange,/., praise.

loucher, to squint.

louer, to rent; se — , to hire oneself out.

louis, m., louis (a gold pièce worth four dollars).

lourd, -e, heavy.

lourdement, heavily.

loyer, m., rent.

lubie, /., whim.

lucarne, /., garret window, donner window.

lueur,/., light, glimmer.

lugubre, gloomy, sad, lugubrious.

lui, him, her, it, to him, to her, he; chez — , at his house.

lui-même, himself.

luire, to shine, glitter.

luisant, -e, shiny, glossy,bright.

lumière,/., light, glitter, flash.

lumineu-x, -se, light, luminous.

lune,/., moon; au clair de — , in the moonlight.

lunettes, /. plur., spectacles.

lustre, m., gloss, slippery surface.

lustrer, to shine up.

lutter, to struggle, fight.

luxe, m., luxury.

machinalement, mechanically.

maçonnerie,/., masonry.

macreuse, /., king-duck.

magasin, m., store, warehouse;

garçon de — , clerk, sales-

man.

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