Chapter 1 - The Stranger - Albert Camus - word translations
bavardant - gossip/chatter
athee - atheist
blanchie a la chaux - whitewashed
verriere - glass/roof wall
la biere ? hearse?
sarrau - smock
frelons - hornets
parisien - from Paris
le corbillard - hearse
Tais-toi - shut up
indigent - poor
le commutateur - the switch
edaboussement - splash
dispose des chaises - arrange the chairs
j'ai somnole - to doze
un frolement - a rustle
grincat - squeak
m'echappait - escaped
ventre bombe - bulging belly
tenaient des cannes - holding canes
affaisse - collapsed
reniflait - sniff
reins - kidneys
tasse - cram/squeeze
menton - chin
tousse -cough
crachait - spit
mouchoir - hankerchief
un arrachement - agreement
incommode - bother
cendre - ashes
rougeurs - red blotches
batiments - building
remue-menage -commotion
la cour - yard
un platane - plane tree
pantalon raye - stripped pants
en principe - as a rule
veiller - watch over/attend
peuril - childish
le cure - parish/prist
drap - sheet
deleguee - representative
osseux - boney
vernie - varnish/glaze
plumier - penal case
costume - mans suit
tirebouchonnait - corkscrew
noeud d'etoffe noir - black fabric knot
nez truffe de points noirs - black heads
blafard - pale
le cure - the priest
col - collar
sombres - dark
la compagne - countryside
cypres - cypres tree
terre rousse - red
une treve - respite
debordant - to boil, to extend beyond
tressaillir - to shiver to shudder
la soueur - sweat
mouchoir - hankerchief
la crane - skull
essuyer - to dry/wipe
balancant - swing
feutre - felt hat
L'eclat - to burst/explode
insoutenable - untenable/unbearable
enfoncaine cocher - sinking
encuir bouilli - boiled leather
avoir ete petri - have been kneaded
bove noir - black mud
l'incen - incense
une nuee de chaleur - a cloud of heat
rattraper - catch up
coupait - cut
une voix singulier - remarkable voice
tremblante- trembling
transpiration -sweat
larmes d'enervement - tears of anger
troittors -sidewalk
pantin - puppet
la chair - flesh
l'incessant ronflemont - incessant snoring
le nid - nest
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