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le rouage

/ʁwaʒ/ noun · masculine C1
  1. wheel (in a machine), cog
  2. machinery (of an administration etc.)
  3. the parts, works; the workings

Plural rouages

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Villefort frissonna à l'idée de ce prisonnier le maudissant dans le silence et l'obscurité ; mais il était engagé trop avant pour reculer : Dantès devait être brisé entre les rouages de son ambition.
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, p. 129 · C1

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