shoulder
/ˈʃoʊldɚ/ nom A1En français : épaule, épaulement, epaule
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck. · The parrot was sitting on Steve's shoulder.
- The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
- A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
- The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
- Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
- A usually unsealed strip of land bordering a road, where vehicles can drive or park in an emergency. · He stopped the car on the shoulder of the highway to change the flat tire.
- The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
- A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
Pluriel shoulders
Dans la bibliothèque
How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; “and even if my head would go through,” thought poor Alice, “it would be of very little use without my shoulders.
“Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
“And where _have_ my shoulders got to?
Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity.
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