careiche
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ʁɛʃ/
Noun
careiche f (plural careiches)
- (botany, archaic) carex, sedge
- 1909, Revue des deux mondes, volume 54, page 771:
- Brillant comme le ventre d'un poisson, tout en écailles blanches, il serpenterait entre les touffes de careiche et les flaques d'eau d'où monte le coassement mélancolique des rainettes.
- Shining like the belly of a fish, all white scales, it snaked through the tufts of sedge and the puddles of water from which the melancholy croaks of tree frogs rise.
- 1947, A. M. Desrousseaux, Les Oiseaux, translation of The Birds by Aristophanes, page 46:
- Fais-la sortir les careiches, ton oiselle; fais-l'en sortir, au nom des dieux, que nous puissons, nous deux aussi, voir la rossignole à notre aise.
- Bring out your little bird from the sedges; bring her out in the name of the gods, so that we two may also behold the nightingale at our leisure.
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