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pause thé: tea break
pause-café: coffee break
pause-carrière: career break (period of time when a person chooses not to have a job, for example because they want to travel or look after their children)
pause-déjeuner: lunchbreak
pauser: to pause
pauvre: poor (financially deprived); lacking, scanty; poor, pitiable; Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
pauvre: poor person; pauper; person deserving of pity
pauvre comme Job: poor as Job (“extremely impoverished”); poor as a church mouse.
pauvre con: jerk; loser
pauvre de: poor old
pauvrement: poorly
pauvret: poor little thing term of commiseration
pauvreté: poverty
pauvrissime: Very poor
pauvrophobie: aporophobia (hatred of poverty or poor people)
pavage: paving (paved surface, art of constructing such a surface)
pavane: pavane
pavaner: to strut one's stuff; to swagger
pavement: paving; tiled floor
paver: to cobble, to pave with cobblestones or something similar; to pave in any sense (including with asphalt, etc.)
pavesan: of Pavia (in Italy); of Pavie (in the Midi-Pyrénées)
paveur: paver; paving company
pavillon: pavilion (tent, structure, ear part); ensign, flag (nautical flag); house, villa, lodge; bell (part of brass instrument); pavilion
pavillon de complaisance: flag of convenience
pavillon noir: Jolly Roger (skull flag)
pavillonnaire: pavilioned
pavlovien: of Pavlov; Pavlovian (relating to the theories of Ivan Pavlov)
pavois: buckler, shield; bulwark
pavoisement: bunting
pavoiser: to deck with flags
pavot: poppy (the flower)
pavot somnifère: opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
pavé: cobblestone; cobblestone street; parallelepiped; pavé (rectangular food); thick, massive book; doorstop
pavé dans la mare: a bombshell, a shocking declaration
pavé droit: rectangular cuboid
pavé numérique: numeric keypad, number pad
pavé tactile: touchpad (flat surface which is sensitive to touch)
pawnee: the Pawnee language
payable: payable
payant: paying, which pays; not free, not free of charge, nonfree, that costs money, that charges money, paid (as in paid service); fruitful, that pays off
paye: salary, pay; payment; payer, someone who pays; ages, a long time
payement: alternative spelling of paiement
payer: to pay (for); to pay (someone); to buy (something); pay for (suffer the consequences of something); to pay off (to be fruitful)
payer bonbon: to pay through the nose
payer cher: to pay dearly
payer d'audace: to brazen it out
payer de sa personne: to trouble oneself with, invest oneself in, take the pain (to do something); to sacrifice oneself for others
payer de sa poche: to pay out of one's own pocket
payer de sa vie: to pay with one's life (to die as a result of one's actions)
payer en monnaie de singe: to swindle someone; to tell someone to go whistle for it
payer l'addition: to pay the bill, to foot the bill; to pay the piper, to pay the price, to pay the penalty
payer le prix fort: to pay through the nose for something; to pay over the odds for something; to pay a high price for something, to pay the price of something
payer les pots cassés: to pay the piper, to pay the price, to pay the penalty, to be left to pick up the pieces, to be left holding the baby
payeur: payer (someone who pays)
payole: a straw hat worn by women
pays: land; region; home ground; homeland; home country; country; nation; country
pays de Cocagne: alternative spelling of pays de cocagne
pays de Galles: Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
pays de cocagne: land of plenty, Cockaigne (land of ease, pleasure and luxury)
pays des merveilles: wonderland