French vocab - P

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précipitamment
hurriedly, hastily
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Un prête-plume

A ghost writer

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un pardessus
an overcoat
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un permis de conduire
a driver's licence
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le Pays de Galles
Wales
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une prairie, un pré

a meadow
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pencher

to bend down, lean out/over, tilt

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la plate-forme (d'un autobus)
the outer deck of an old-fashioned bus
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plutôt
rather/fairly
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postuler à un emploi/pour une poste, poser sa candidature pour une position

to apply for a job

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promouvoir (pp: promu)
to promote
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le palefrenier
groom/ostler at a stable
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le piqueur
hewer, whip, thief
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le précepteur
private tutor
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la pierre
stone/rock
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le plateau
tray
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présenter qqn à qqn
to introduce sb to sb
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le potage
soup
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la prébende
remuneration, emolument
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plus ou moins
or so, more or less
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présupposer
to assume
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pressé
impatient, hurried, rushed
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plaindre
to pity, sympathise
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la pièce
room, show
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la pastèque
watermelon
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la proscription
ban
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le poutre
beam
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un penchant
a liking for
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une pause-café
a coffee break
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un pot-de-vin
a bribe
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un pare-brise
a windscreen
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le pneu (les pneus)
tyre (tyres)
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une planche à roulettes
a skateboard
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le placard
cupboard
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la péniche
barge
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le poing
fist
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profiter de
to take advantage of
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la plate-forme (d'un autobus)
outer deck of old-fashioned bus
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poser sa candidature pour une position
to apply for a job
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poursuivre
to continue, go on, pursue
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prendre une heure de congé
to take a day off
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prometteur/euse
promising
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un parabole
a parable
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passer à la boulangerie
to stop by the baker's
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des potins
gossip
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le pouce
thumb
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les péripéties [perip-ici]

twists + turns/incidents/events/adventures

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passer devant
to go by
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précipitamment
hurriedly
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à portée de sa main
within arm's reach
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un pardessus
an (over)coat
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penser à faire qch
to remember to do sth
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un permis de conduire
a driver's licence
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le Pays de Galles
Wales
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piquer

to sting/bite, nick/steal sth

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pernicieux
harmful
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précautioinneux
careful, wary
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une plateforme
platform
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la petite monnaie
loose change
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les poils [always plural! like cheveux]
fur
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paralysé de
numb with, paralysed by
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palper
to finger
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passager(ère)
momentary
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prospère
prosperous
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le/la prête-plume
ghost writer
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parlant
indicative, revealing, eloquent
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parcourir
to travel (distance)
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le portail
gate
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le papillon
butterfly
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le papillon de nuit
moth
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la physionomie
face
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se picorer
to peck
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pittoresque
picturesque
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pertinent
relevant
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précieux
valuable
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pirater
to hack
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le palais
palace
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parier

to bet, gamble, wager

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prétendre
to claim
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prôner
to advocate, extol, laud, commend
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le pareil, la pareille
identical, the same
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la paysannerie
peasantry
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le peintre
painter
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pourrir (le pourrissement)

to rot, decompose, go bad (deterioration)

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le piège

trap

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prendre qqn au piège

to trap sb

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piocher

to dig up, take from the pile

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le paysan

self-sufficient farmer (subsistence farming)

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proférer qch

to utter sth

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prodiguer qch à qqn

to lavish sth on sb

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plats à emporter 

take-away meals

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périr (noyé)

to die [literary] (by drowning)

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faire de la plongée

to go scuba diving

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le pouls

pulse

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un lien/texte en pièce-jointe d’un e-mail

email attachment

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pliant(e)

folding

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le pressentiment

hunch, feeling

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pieds nus

barefoot

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une pelle

a shovel/spade

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périr noyé

to die by drowning