flurry
/ˈflʌ.ɹi/ nom C1En français : averse de neige
- A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow.
- A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze. · a flurry of wind
- A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
- Any sudden activity; a stir. · The day before the wedding was a flurry of preparations.· a flurry of excitement.
- A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
- The violent spasms of a dying whale.
- An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time. · The fencer landed a flurry of hits on her opponent.· The think piece provoked a flurry of media responses for the remainder of the week.
Pluriel flurries
Dans la bibliothèque
“Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before.
A Flurry in Stocks
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