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arrière-bouche: synonym of pharynx
arrière-boutique: a room at the back of a shop
arrière-bras: upper arm
arrière-cerveau: hindbrain
arrière-chambre: backroom
arrière-choeur: nonstandard spelling of arrière-chœur
arrière-chœur: a choir placed behind the altar in a church
arrière-cour: backyard (of a house); rear courtyard (of a mansion etc)
arrière-cousin: second cousin; distant cousin
arrière-cuisine: back kitchen; scullery
arrière-faix: afterbirth, secundines (placenta and other material expelled via the birth canal following childbirth or parturition in mammals)
arrière-fleur: second flowering
arrière-foin: second crop
arrière-fond: a deeply-held feeling etc.
arrière-garde: rearguard
arrière-gorge: pharynx
arrière-goût: aftertaste
arrière-grand-mère: great-grandmother
arrière-grand-oncle: great-granduncle
arrière-grand-parent: great grandparent
arrière-grand-père: great-grandfather (father of grandparent)
arrière-grand-tante: great-grandaunt
arrière-main: hindquarters (of an animal); backhand
arrière-neveu: grandnephew
arrière-nièce: grandniece
arrière-pays: hinterland (land immediately next to a coast)
arrière-pensée: ulterior motive; doubt, reservation
arrière-petit-enfant: great-grandchild (grandchild of someone’s child)
arrière-petit-fils: great-grandson
arrière-petit-neveu: great-grandnephew
arrière-petite-fille: great-granddaughter
arrière-petite-nièce: great-grandniece
arrière-plan: background (part of picture)
arrière-point: a type of needlepoint with overlapping stitches
arrière-port: an inner port
arrière-rang: Last row of attacking soldiers; rearguard
arrière-saison: autumn (especially late autumn); the beginnings of old age; the last months before harvest
arrière-salle: back of house; an inner room (behind another one)
arrière-scène: backstage
arrière-train: the rear of a train, or 4x4 vehicle; hindquarters (of an animal); caboose, posterior, hindquarters (buttocks of a human)
arrière-voussure: an arch behind a door or window
arrière-été: late summer (near the onset of autumn)
arriération: retardation, backwardness
arriérer: to tarry (be late)
arriéré: arrear; retard
arriéré: underdeveloped; backwards (behind current trends); retarded
arrobe: the at symbol, @
arroche: orach
arrocher: to stone, to lapidate
arrogamment: arrogantly
arrogance: arrogance
arrogant: arrogant
arrogeable: appropriatable
arroger: to arrogate, appropriate; to assume (a position, right, etc.)
arrondi: rounded (made circular or spherical); rounded (approximated to its nearest round value); rounded (pronounced with lips drawn together)
arrondi: round part, rounded portion (of an object); fillet (rounded relief or cut at an edge); flare (transition from downward flight to level flight)
arrondir: to round (make round); to round up, round down or round off
arrondir les angles: to smooth things out, to smooth things over
arrondir ses fins de mois: to gain a little extra money, to supplement one's income
arrondissage: rounding (mechanical)