fumer
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verb
to smoke
to emit smoke
to steam
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- La soupe aux pois fumait déjà dans les assiettes.Pea soup already smoked on the plates.B1Maria Chapdelaine
- Les Sauvages prirent leur repas qui consistait en sagamité et en poisson fumé.The Indians took their meal, which consisted of sagamity and smoked fish.B2Le Chevalier de Mornac
- Il chercha encore; mais ses regards obscurcis par la mort ne rencontrèrent que le couteau tombé des mains de Felton, et fumant encore du sang vermeil étendu sur la lame.He still sought; but his eyes darkened by death met only the knife fallen from Felton's hands, and still smoking vermeil blood lying on the blade.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
- Il visita les îles Lucayes, et ensuite celles de Cuba et de st. Domingue où il trouva le tabac dont les Indigènes faisaient usage pour fumer, pratique inconnue des Européens, et la pomme de terre, humble tubercule peu apprécié alors, dit Washington Irving, mais dont l'acquisition fut plus précieuse pour l'homme que toutes les épices de l'Orient.He visited the Lucayes Islands, and then those of Cuba and St. Domingue, where he found the tobacco that Indigenous people used to smoke, a practice unknown to Europeans, and the potato, a humble tuber that was not appreciated at the time, said Washington Irving, but whose acquisition was more precious to man than all the spices of the East.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
Other ways to say it
Text you meet in the street
- Défense de fumerNo smokingThe formal wording; Interdit de fumer says the same thing.
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