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pendant
     1. adj. hanging
     2. n-m. stone that dangles on earrings
     3. n-m. match, counterpart
     4. prep. during, throughout, for the duration of
     5. Participle. present participle of pendre
     pendre
          1. v. to hang
          2. v. to sag, droop
toute
     1. adv. feminine singular of tout
     2. det. feminine singular of tout
     tout
          1. adv. all
          2. det. all
          3. n-m. whole, entirety, total
                le tout
          4. pron. everything
la
     1. art. the (definite article)
     2. pron. her, it (direct object)
           Où est Judith ? Je ne la vois pas. - Where is Judith? I don't see her.
           Prends cette boîte et mets-la dans le coin. - Take that box and put it in the corner.
     3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A'
pièce
     1. n-f. room (in a house, etc)
     2. n-f. piece
     3. n-f. (money) coin
     4. n-f. play (in a theatre)
     5. n-f. (heraldry) ordinary
     6. n-f. (legal) document, paper
     7. n-f. patch
il
     1. pron. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject)
           Il est parti. - He left.
     2. pron. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects)
           Je cherche mon livre. Où est-il ? - I'm looking for my book. Where is it?
     3. pron. (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it
           Il pleut. - It’s raining.
resta
     1. v. third-person singular past historic of rester
     rester
          1. v. to stay
                On est restés à l'hôtel pendant une bonne part du séjour, on était tous malades.
          2. v. to remain, be left over
                Il reste un peu de riz dans le frigo, si tu veux.
          3. v. to stay, to remain (to continue to have a particular quality)
                Elle est restée comme elle était quand je l'ai rencontrée.
          4. v. (rare) to rest
          5. v. (Louisiana French, Canada) to live
                Moi, je reste au Québec.
dans
     1. prep. (literal, figurative) in, inside (enclosed in a physical space, a group, a state)
           vieillir dans la misère - to grow old in poverty
           être dans l'infanterie - to be in the infantry
           avoir quelque chose dans la bouche - to have something in the mouth
           dans les circonstances d'une pandémie - under the circumstances of a pandemic
           Il habite dans le quartier le plus riche de Paris. - He lives in the richest district of Paris.
           Il nage comme un poisson dans l'eau. - He swims like a fish in the water.
           mettre l'argent dans la poche - to put money into one's pocket
           Bienvenue dans le meilleur bar de tout Paris. - Welcome to the best bar in all of Paris.
     2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain large subdivisions, see usage notes)
           Aujourd'hui, je vais dans le Maine, et demain, je vais dans l’État de New York. - Today, I'm going to Maine, and tomorrow, I'm going to New York.
     3. prep. in, within (a longer period of time)
           Je serai prêt dans une heure. - I'll be ready in one hour.
           Il arrivera dans trois jours. - He will arrive in three days.
     4. prep. (with respect to time) during
           dans un temps donné - during a given time
           dans ma jeunesse - in my youth
     5. prep. out of, from
           boire dans une tasse - to drink from a cup
           Il prend le beurre dans le réfrigérateur. - He takes the butter out of the fridge.
     6. prep. (metonymy) in; in the works of
           le marxisme dans Sartre - Marxism in the works of Sartre
     7. prep. (colloquial) (Used in dans les)
           dans les trentes kilos - about thirty kilos
           dans les dix euros - about ten euros
     8. n. plural of dan
les
     1. art. plural of le: the
     2. art. plural of la: the
     3. pron. plural of le: them
     4. pron. plural of la: them
coulisses
     1. n. plural of coulisse
     2. adj. feminine plural of coulis
     3. v. second-person singular present of coulisser
     coulisser
          1. v. to slide
     coulisse
          1. n-f. coulisse (piece of timber)
          2. n-f. side of a stage, dressing room
          3. n-f. slide or rail on which a drawer or window slides
                Comme nous avons pu le voir précédemment, le tiroir se pose sur la coulisse et le stabilise à l’arrière. - As we have seen earlier, the drawer is placed on the rail which stabilizes it in the b
          4. n-f. background
                Soudain, une voix s'éleva en coulisse. - Suddenly a voice was heard in the background.
          5. n-f. (musical instruments, lutherie, bowmaking) underslide, underslide channel
          6. adj. feminine singular of coulis
          7. v. first-person singular present of coulisser
          8. v. third-person singular present of coulisser
          9. v. second-person singular imperative of coulisser
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