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  • One moment she was mopping the floors with her balai espagnole ... and the next she was lying helpless on the cold wet tiles.

    troisième age - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • One moment she was mopping the floors with her balai espagnole... and the next she was lying helpless on the cold wet tiles.

    troisième age - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Especially when that tai lou tell story about how his accident and have to deal with the police in the balai.

    BASIC LAWS RELATED TO BLOGGING & BLOGS THAT BLOGGER READS Jerine 2009

  • Especially when that tai lou tell story about how his accident and have to deal with the police in the balai.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Jerine 2009

  • Only a kid could make a basketball out of a balai.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • Also: les balais = (informal) years "avoir trente balais" to be 30-years-old balayer (ba-lay-yay) verb = to sweep la voiture-balai = the last car in a line of wedding guests 'cars (usually with saucepans attached to it)

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • Tuesday, January 25, 2005 un balai un balai (ba-lay) noun, masculine

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • Tuesday, January 25, 2005 un balai un balai (ba-lay) noun, masculine

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • = (Get) out! un coup de balai = a massive employee layoff passer le balai = to sweep the floor balayer devant sa porte = (to sweep before one's door) to correct one's own errors before criticizing another's

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • Also: les balais = (informal) years "avoir trente balais" to be 30-years-old balayer (ba-lay-yay) verb = to sweep la voiture-balai = the last car in a line of wedding guests 'cars (usually with saucepans attached to it)

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

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