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pâturin: grass; any plant belonging to the taxonomical family Poaceae
pâté: pâté (a type of liver paste)
pâté chinois: pâté chinois
pâté de maisons: city block (part of town enclosed by streets)
pâté à la viande: meat pie
pâté à la viande du Lac-St-Jean: tourtière
pâtée: any pet food in the form of a paste, such as cat food or dog food
pæan: archaic spelling of péan
pègre: underworld, mob (part of society that is engaged in crime or vice)
pèlerin: pilgrim
pèlerinage: pilgrimage (religious journey, or one to a sacred place)
pèlerine: female equivalent of pèlerin; pelerine, cape
pèleriner: to go on a pilgrimage
père: father (parent); father (clergyman); Sr. (senior) (postnominal title used to indicate a father that shares the same name as the son)
père Noël: alternative spelling of Père Noël
père de famille: father of a family; family man
père de l'Église: Church Father
père de la nation: father of the nation (person considered the driving force behind the establishment of a country, state, or nation)
père de la patrie: father of the nation (person considered the driving force behind the establishment of a country, state, or nation)
père fondateur: founding father (man who founded something)
père fouettard: bogeyman (especially one who accompanies Father Christmas and threatens naughty children with a whip)
père supérieur: father superior (friar or monk in charge of a monastery)
père-la-pudeur: a prude
pèse-bébé: baby scale
pèse-lait: lactometer (device to weight cream)
pèse-personne: bathroom scales (flat floor-mounted scales (usually stored in the bathroom) used to measure one's own weight)
pète: fail (of an exam); butt
pète-burnes: ball-buster; pain; pain in the arse (someone who is irritating)
pète-burnes: irritating, annoying as fuck
pète-couilles: ball-buster; pain; pain in the arse (someone who is irritating)
pète-couilles: irritating, annoying as fuck
pète-sec: snippy
pèze: dosh, dough (money)
pé: The name of the Latin script letter P/p.
péage: toll, payment; toll booth; paywall
péager: a person who receives a toll or manages a toll booth
péagiste: tollperson
péan: paean
pébioctet: pebibyte
pébrine: pébrine
pébroc: umbrella
pébroque: umbrella
pécari: peccary (a family of mammals related to pigs and hippos)
pécaïre: gadzooks!; darnation!
pécher: to sin
pécheur: sinner
pécheur: sinning; sinful
pécho: to nab, to bust, to catch in the act; to score with, to hook up with, to pull, to pick up (to have sex); to make out with, to kiss; to seduce, to flirt with; to obtain drugs, to score drugs
péché: sin
péché capital: deadly sin (any of the seven deadly sins)
péché mignon: guilty pleasure, little weakness, little indulgence
péché originel: original sin (the state of sin, present in each human at birth, that is a direct result of Adam's disobedience to God)
péché philosophique: philosophical sin
pécore: a small farm animal (not necessarily a sheep); blockhead (stupid person); peasant
péculat: peculation
péculativement: peculatively
pécule: savings, nest egg
pécule de vacances: holiday pay, holiday allowance bonus
pécuniaire: pecuniary, financial
pécuniairement: financially, pecuniarily