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pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse: a rolling stone gathers no moss
pierre sèche: dry-stone
pierre tombale: tombstone, gravestone, headstone
pierre à aiguiser: whetstone, hone
pierre à fusil: flint (piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker)
pierre-feuille-ciseaux: rock paper scissors
pierre-papier-ciseaux: rock paper scissors
pierreries: gems, gemstones
pierrette: small stone; pebble (used in a children's game); a type of white camisole
pierreuse: streetwalker
pierreux: stony, rocky
pierrier: scree
pierrot: house sparrow
pieu: post, stake; bed, sack
pieusement: piously
pieuter: to sleep (in bed); to go to bed; to crash out, hit the hay
pieuvre: octopus
pieuvre à anneaux bleus: southern blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa)
pieux: pious
pieux mensonge: white lie
pif: conk, hooter, schnozzle (nose, especially if large); nose, intuition
piffer: to stand, put up with
pifomètre: intuitive estimate or approximation
pigache: a kind of rudimentary hoe; hoofprint of a wild boar longer on one side than the other; pigache, style of medieval shoe with an elongated toe
pigamon du Yunnan: Thalictrum delavayi Franch.
pigamon glauque: Thalictrum speciosissimum L.
pige: measure; year (of age); year (period of time in general)
pigeon: pigeon; patsy (an easily trickable, naive person)
pigeon biset: rock dove
pigeon blanc antarctique: The snowy sheathbill.
pigeon de passage: passenger pigeon
pigeon voyageur: homing pigeon; carrier
pigeonnant: uplift (of a bra); pigeon-chested
pigeonneau: squab (young pigeon)
pigeonner: to take for a ride or dupe (the person being duped is the pigeon)
pigeonnier: dovecote
piger: to understand; to get, to catch on, to twig, to cotton on; to choose at random; to draw
pigiste: freelance (journalist, writer)
pigiste: freelance journalist
pigment: pigment, coloring substance
pigmentaire: pigment; pigmentary
pigmentation: pigmentation
pigmenter: to pigment
pigne: synonym of pomme de pin (“pinecone”); synonym of pignon (“pine nut”)
pigner: to cry, to whine
pignistique: pignistic
pignocher: to pick at one's food
pignon: pine nut, pine kernel
pignon: gable
pignon: gearwheel, pinion, sprocket
pignouf: boor, yokel; loser, dork
pigueroin: kidney (especially as food)
pigé: capisce?
pika: pika
pilaf: pilaf
pilage: crushing
pilaire: piliated
pilastre: pilaster
pilchard: pilchard, sardine
pile: heap, stack; pillar; battery; tails; pile