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RAILLERIE [4 records]

Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

The razzing the booklet took from the press was "predictable", McArdle says.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 2 1986-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
OBS

(argot) (Le Linguiste) le 1er novembre 1968

Spanish

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Record 3 1986-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Proverbs and Maxims

French

Domaine(s)
  • Proverbes et dictons
OBS

et non prendre une farce

Spanish

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Record 4 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

A lampoon or satire usu. having a political significance.

CONT

A writer of farce, burlesque and incisive pasquinade of political criticism.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
DEF

Placard qu'on attachait autrefois à la statue de Pasquin.//Aujourd’hui, Raillerie bouffonne et triviale.

OBS

de Pasquin, d’après l’italien «pasquinata».

Spanish

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