couvre-feu

Français · Honduras: Des citoyens filment leur pays sous couvre-feu

Global Voices in English » Honduras: Citizen Videos from a Country Under Curfew 2009

"Great Peter," which was placed above, the curfew or _couvre-feu_

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

"La Cloche du couvre-feu tinte le clas du jour qui expire."

Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 Various

Then when the _couvre-feu_ had sounded, when all public places were closed, when the night watchman had begun his rounds, Déroulède knew that his quest for that night must remain fruitless.

I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

Licquet says that the allusion to the curfew -- or _couvre-feu_ -- as appears in the previous edition -- and which the reader well knows was established by the

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

'Curfew' (Fr. _couvre-feu_ = fire-cover), the bell that was rung at eight or nine o'clock in the evening as a signal that all fires and lights were to be extinguished.

Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

L'armée a aussitôt bouclé la zone entourant Bat Ayin et décrété un couvre-feu dans les villages palestiniens voisins, où la police perquisitionnait les maisons à la recherche du meurtrier.

A New Dark Age Is Dawning 2009

Malgré le couvre-feu instauré la veille par le gouvernement de coalition, en place depuis le mois de décembre dernier à l'issue, déjà, d'une séquence insurrectionnelle dans le pays, les manifestants thaïlandais sont bien décidés à poursuivre leur occupation du pavé.

A New Dark Age Is Dawning 2009

_couvre-feu_ bell of the days of William the Conqueror, a custom still kept up in many of the towns and hamlets of England, and some of our own towns and cities; and until recently the nine-o'clock bell greeted the ears of Bostonians, year in and year out.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various

La cloche du couvre-feu sonne le glas du jour s’en allant

Literary translation (English) Rene Meertens 2010