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English-French Dictionary: noir

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	ADJ	noir \| noire \| noirs \| noires
	NOUN	le Noir \| les Noirs

noir {adj}: black
noir {adj} [bronzé]: brown [suntanned]
noir {adj} [obscure]: dark [sinister]
noir {m}: dark
black
Noir {m} [personne]: Black [person]ethn.
au noir {adj}: off the books [postpos.]fin.
undeclared [in respect of tax]fin.
under the table [coll.] [postpos.]fin.
bleu-noir {adj}: blue/black [color code]arts
complètement noir {adj} [pièce]: completely dark
noir d'encre {adj}: inky-blackarts
noir profond {adj}: ebony
deep black
inky black
Africain {m} noir [très rare]: black Africanethn.
argent {m} noir: illegal moneyfin.
black money [illegal money]fin.
beurre {m} noir: black buttercuis.
blé {m} noir [sarrasin]: buckwheat
blouson {m} noir: rocker [Br.]
greaser [Am.]
[young fan of rock-and-roll in the 1960's]mus.
boudin {m} (noir): black pudding [Br.] [blood sausage]cuis.
café {m} noir: black coffeecuis.
carnet {m} noir [annonce de décès]: obituary [notice in a paper]journ.sociol.
chiffre {m} noir: (estimated) number of undetected casesstat.
(estimated) number of unrecorded casesstat.
(estimated) number of unreported casesstat.
chocolat {m} noir: dark chocolatecuis.
plain chocolatecuis.
Code {m} noir: Code noir [decree passed by King Louis XIV of France in 1685 defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire]dr.sociol.
corps {m} noir: black bodyastron.phys.
crayon {m} noir [belge]: lead pencilarts
film {m} noir: film noirfilm
fumeur {m} noir: black smokergéol.
gel {m} noir: black frostmétéo.
grenache {m} (noir) [cépage noir]: Grenache [red wine grape variety] [also: Garnacha]agr.bot.œnol.
humour {m} noir: black comedy
dark humor [Am.]
black humor [Am.]
dark humour [Br.]
black humour [Br.]
gallows humor [Am.]
gallows humour [Br.]
grim sense of humor [Am.]
grim sense of humour [Br.]
morbid sense of humor [Am.]
morbid sense of humour [Br.]
lieu {m} noir [Pollachius virens] [aussi : colin (noir)]: saithe [Br.]cuis.ichtyo.
coley [Br.] [also: coalfish]cuis.ichtyo.
marché {m} noir: black market
mouton {m} noir [aussi fig.]: bad apple [fig.]
black sheep [also fig.]
pain {m} noir: black breadcuis.
pavillon {m} noir: Jolly Rogernaut.
pied-noir {m}: pied noir [French man born in Algeria before independence]
Pied-noir {m} [Indien d'Amérique]: Blackfeetethn.
point {m} noir [sur le visage]: comedoméd.
blackheadméd.
poivre {m} noir: black peppercuis.
pouvoir {m} noir: Black Powerpol.
Prince {m} Noir: Black Prince [Edward of Woodstock (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376) was the eldest son of King Edward III of England]hist.
risotto {m} noir: risotto with squid inkcuis.
roman {m} noir: crime novelédition
tableau {m} (noir): blackboardéduc.
tableau {m} noir: black boardéduc.
tapenade {f} noir: black olive pastecuis.
thé {m} noir: black teacuis.
trou {m} noir [aussi fig.]: black hole [also fig.]astron.phys.
noir de monde {adj}: crowded with people [postpos.]
packed to the rafters [postpos.] [idiom]
noir et blanc {adj} [aussi fig.]: black and white [also fig.]
sur fond noir {adv}: on a black background
broyer du noir [loc.]: to brood
to feel blue [idiom]
to be in the doldrums [coll.] [idiom]
to be down in the dumps [coll.] [idiom]
payer qn. au noir [loc.]: to pay sb. in cash for work done [knowing they will avoid paying income tax]fin.
peindre en noir [fig.]: to naysay
to catastrophize
to catastrophise [Br.]
peindre qc. en noir [loc.]: to paint a black picture of sth. [idiom]
travailler au noir [loc.]: to work illegallyoccup.
to do illicit workoccup.
to work on the side [idiom]occup.
to work under the table [Am.] [idiom] [work without paying taxes]occup.
travail {m} au noir: undeclared workoccup.
cash-in-hand joboccup.
work on the side [coll.]occup.
C'était noir de monde.: It was teeming with people.
en noir et blanc {adv}: in black and white
noir comme un corbeau {adj}: jet-blackarts
raven-blackarts
as black as a crow [postpos.]arts
être noir de monde: to be teeming with people
voir tout en noir [loc.]: to look on the black side (of things) [idiom]
cercopithèque {m} noir et vert [Allenopithecus nigroviridis]: swamp guenonzool.
événement {m} du cygne noir: black swan event [event that comes as a surprise and has a major effect]écon.pol.
horizon {m} d'un trou noir: event horizonastron.phys.

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