lash
/læʃ/ nom C1En français : lanière, coup de fouet
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment. · The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- Flowering plants of genus Blepharis.
- A quantity, a great number or amount (e.g. of rain or milk).
Pluriel lashes
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: “If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy.”
Besides, one requires the excitement of being hateful in the eyes of the accused, in order to lash one’s self into a state of sufficient vehemence and power.
The Sea, assuming the form of a woman, replied to him: “Blame not me, my good sir, but the winds, for I am by my own nature as calm and firm even as this earth; but the winds suddenly falling on me create these waves, and lash me into fury.”
When the cobra runs for her life, she goes like a whip-lash flicked across a horse’s neck.
Autres résultats
- lash To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so ... C2
- lash fouetter, gronder C2
- lash Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional C2
- lash Soft, watery, wet. C2
- lash back Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- lash down To secure with ropes
- lash off To lash out verbally
- lash out vitupérer
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