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roux

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adjective
  1. russet
  2. red, gingerrefers to hair of a reddish-brown color
nounmasculine
  1. redheadman
  2. rouxa mixture of fat and flour

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  • — Je prends celui que tient le valet roux.— I take the one held by the red valet.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
  • Ce dernier que, depuis une minute, le fixait du regard en fronçant ses épais sourcils roux, baissa tout aussitôt les yeux.The latter, who had been staring at him for a minute, frowning his thick red eyebrows, immediately lowered his eyes.B2Le Chevalier de Mornac
  • Il avait eu les cheveux roux dans sa jeunesse; mais les périls où il s'était trouvé, et ses travaux, les firent bientôt devenir blancs.He had had red hair in his youth; but the perils where he had been, and his labors, soon made them white.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
  • — La fleur de lis est petite, rousse de couleur et comme effacée par les couches de pâte qu’on y applique.— The fleur de lis is small, red in colour and as erased by the layers of paste that are applied to it.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires

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