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pays des mille collines: nickname for Rwanda: a country in East Africa
pays des rêves: dreamland, slumberland, land of Nod (the state of sleep, or an imaginary place that one inhabits when asleep)
pays du Cèdre: Lebanon
pays du Matin-Calme: synonym of Corée (“Korea”) or Corée du Sud (“South Korea”)
pays du Soleil Levant: the Land of the Rising Sun (Japan)
pays du Soleil-Levant: alternative spelling of pays du Soleil Levant
pays développé: developed country
pays en voie de développement: developing country
pays membre: member state, member country
pays émergent: emerging market
paysage: countryside; landscape; landscape (format)
paysager: landscape; countryside; country
paysager: to do landscaping; to landscape
paysagiste: a land artist; a landscape designer, a landscape gardener; an artist who specialises in painting the country
paysagéité: landscapity
paysan: a peasant; someone who lives in the country; ruralite; a country bumpkin
paysannat: peasantry
paysanne: peasantess, female peasant
paysannerie: peasantry
paélia: post-1990 spelling of paella
paëlla: alternative spelling of paella
paître: to graze
païen: pagan, heathen
païen: pagan, heathen; an uneducated person, a hick
païsage: obsolete spelling of paysage
pb: abbreviation of problème (“problem”)
peacekeeper: peacekeeper (peace officer from an aboriginal Canadian community)
pearcéite: pearceite
peau: skin of a person or animal; hide, fur; skin (protective outer layer of a plant or fruit); skin formed on top of certain prepared foods
peau de banane: banana peel
peau de chagrin: shagreen
peau de chamois: chamois leather, shammy
peau de vache: battle axe, cat, nasty piece of work
peau-rouge: Red Indian
peau-rouge: Amerindian
peaufinage: fine-tuning
peaufinement: fine-tuning
peaufiner: to fine-tune
peausser: to put oneself in the shoes of, to disguise.
pec: pec (pectoralis major muscle)
peccable: peccable
peccadille: peccadillo (small sin or error)
peccamineux: peccaminous, sinful
pechblende: pitchblende
pecho: alternative spelling of pécho
pecten: pecten (scallop)
pectine: pectin
pectique: pectic
pectocellulosique: pectocellulosic
pectolytique: pectolytic
pectoral: pectoral
pectoral: pectoral
pectosique: pectosic
pedante: obsolete spelling of pédante
pedigree: alternative spelling of pédigrée (“pedigree”)
pedzouille: a peasant, bumpkin, yokel
peeling: exfoliation; peel
pegmatite: pegmatite
pegmatitique: pegmatitic
pehlvi: Middle Persian