Adjectives / Adverbs | |||||||
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| blue adj. - colour | bleu, bleue - couleur | ||||||
| black and blue [fig.] - bruised | couvert(e) de bleus | ||||||
Nouns | |||||||
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| blue - mass noun; colour | le bleu - couleur | ||||||
| blue-jean [TEXTIL.] | le jean English | ||||||
| blue duck [ZOOL.] | le canard bleu | ||||||
| blue giant [ASTR.] | la géante bleue | ||||||
| blue goose [ZOOL.] | l'oie blanche f. | ||||||
| blue goose [ZOOL.] | l'oie des neiges f. | ||||||
| blue pigeon (or: blue-pigeon) [ZOOL.] | le founingo | ||||||
| turquoise blue - colour | le bleu turquoise - couleur | ||||||
| blue-billed duck [ZOOL.] | l'érismature f. australe | ||||||
| blue-billed teal [ZOOL.] | la sarcelle hottentote | ||||||
| blue-chested hummingbird [ZOOL.] | l'ariane f. aimable | ||||||
| blue-footed booby [ZOOL.] | le fou aux pieds bleus [Ornithology] Lat.: Sula nebouxii | ||||||
| blue-mantled thornbill [ZOOL.] | la métallure de Stanley | ||||||
| blue-tailed hummingbird [ZOOL.] | l'ariane f. à queue bleu | ||||||
Phrases / Collocations | |||||||
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| to beat so. black and blue [fig.] | rouer qn. de coups | ||||||
| to beat so. black and blue [fig.] | rosser qn. | ||||||
| to feel blue [fig.] | broyer du noir [fig.] | ||||||
| once in a blue moon | tous les trente-six du mois | ||||||
| to turn up out of the blue | arriver comme une fleur | ||||||
| to talk a blue streak [coll.] (Amer.) | être un moulin à paroles [fig.] | ||||||
| to come out of the clear blue sky [fig.] | arriver comme un coup de tonnerre | ||||||
Examples | |||||||
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| She has blue eyes. | Elle a les yeux bleus. | ||||||
| It happened out of the blue. | C'est tombé du ciel. | ||||||
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Orthographically similar words | |
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| able, bale, blur, clue, flue, glue, lure | blé, bleu, boue, buse, buté, loué, lue, luge, lune, luxe |
Related search terms | |
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| rookie | |
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