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robe de mariée: wedding dress (the clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony)
robe de nuit: nightgown, nightdress
robe de soirée: evening dress, party dress
robe virile: synonym of toge virile (“toga virilis”)
robe à la française: sack-back/sack-back gown, sacque, Watteau gown
robe à tournure: a dress meant to be worn with a bustle. It was popular from the 1860s to the early 1900s
rober: to wrap a cigar in a sheet of tobacco
robert: tit (human breast)
robervalien: Roberval
robespierrisme: Robespierrism
robespierriste: Robespierrist
robeur: rubber; product of the rubber tree or similar latex, or its synthetic analogues; tire, tyre; vulcanized rubber pneumatic tires of automotive vehicles
robin: sheep, calf
robin: lawyer
robinet: tap (UK), faucet (US)
robinet d'arrêt: stopcock
robinetterie: taps; plumbing; tap factory
robinier: locust (tree of genus Robinia)
robinier faux-acacia: black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia
roboratif: strengthening, bracing, invigorating
roborativement: invigoratingly
robot: robot
robot boulanger: bread maker (machine)
robot ménager: food processor
robotique: robotic
robotiquement: robotically
robotisation: robotization/robotisation, roboticization/roboticisation
robotiser: to robotize; to automate
robuste: robust, hardy
robustement: robustly (in a robust manner)
robustesse: robustness
roc: rock
roc: rook
rocade: a communication channel behind the front line, allowing soldiers and materiel to move about; bypass, ring road; a kind of twisted-pair cable
rocaille: rocks; rockery
rocaille: rococo
rocailleur: a person who builds a rockery
rocailleusement: rockily
rocailleux: rocky (containing lots of rocks); gravelly
rocambole: rocambole (sand leek)
rocambolesque: fantastic, unusual, incredible, wacky
roche: rock (large mass of stone)
roche Tarpée: Tarpeian Rock (a steep cliff of the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill, used as an execution site in Ancient Rome)
roche Tarpéienne: Tarpeian Rock (a steep cliff of the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill, used as an execution site in Ancient Rome)
roche moutonnée: roche moutonnée, sheepback
roche-papier-ciseaux: rock paper scissors
rochelais: of La Rochelle, France
rocher: rock (mass of projecting rock)
rocher de Sisyphe: Sisyphean task
rochet: rochet
rochet: ratchet
rocheux: rocky
rochier: small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
rock: rock (style of music)
rock'n'roll: rock and roll
rockant: rocking (“rock music”); present participle of rocker
rocker: to rock (play or enjoy rock music)
rocket: rocket (weapon)
rockeur: rocker (“rock-musician”)
rocking-chair: rocking chair