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Dictionary translations for "peste noire"

la peste noire f noun

pl. pestes noires

black plague

Contexts with "peste noire"

Une obscurité noire est un exemple de pléonasme. A black darkness is an example of a pleonasm.

Pour une raison quelconque, les gens m'ont évitée comme la peste depuis que je suis revenu d'Inde. For some reason, people have been avoiding me like the plague ever since I got back from India.

Assise dans son fauteuil en peau de panthère, la jeune femme en lingerie rouge lisait à haute voix un livre intitulé « La princesse noire ». Sitting in her panther hide chair, the young woman, clad in red lingerie, was reading aloud a book titled "The Black Princess".

Des milliers de personnes sont mortes pendant la peste. Thousands of people died during the plague.

La cheminée crache de la fumée noire. The chimney is belching black smoke.

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