blaireau

Norman recognised it at once as the "blaireau," or American badger.

The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850

The different sticks are (in descending point value) cerf, chevreuil, renard, blaireau, and lièvre -- and of course the same animals in German.

mauvais perdant - French Word-A-Day 2009

The different sticks are in descending point value cerf, chevreuil, renard, blaireau, and lièvre -- and of course the same animals in German.

mauvais perdant - French Word-A-Day 2009

Le vivant me repugne, quand on me parle je plisse les yeux et fait la grimace parce que la voix des gens me blesse les tympans, je ne fait jamais la bise ni ne sert la main sauf si la personne en face attends comme un blaireau.

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

Bon Soubi aime s'acclamer propriétaire attitré des levres de Ritsuka et s'amuse a faire de super gros sous-entendu de gros blaireau en manque mais j'ai pas souvenir que Ritsuka perde ses oreilles moi!!

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

The name is probably derived from "badge," device, on account of the marks on the head; or it may be identical with the term separately noticed below, the French _blaireau_ being used in both senses.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

These are not always the holes scraped out for its own residence, but the burrows of the marmots, which the blaireau has enlarged, so that it may enter and prey upon them.

The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850

The blaireau only hesitated long enough to select one of the burrows into which he was sure a marmot had entered; and then, setting himself to his work, he commenced throwing out the mould like a terrier.

The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850

In this way the creature obtains most of its food, but as the marmots lie torpid during the winter months, and the ground above them is frozen as hard as a rock, it is then impossible for the blaireau to effect an entrance.

The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850

Of these there are several species in North America, but it is not to be supposed that there is any resemblance between them and the buzzards just mentioned as having alighted by the carcass of the blaireau.

The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850