Heath's French and English dictionary

by Jean Louis de Lolme

dépâtisser, v.a., (print.) to sort and distribute (type).

dépavage, n.m., unpaving.

dépaver, v.a., to unpave, to take up the pavement.

dépaysé, -e, part., away from home, out of one’s element. Se trouver — dans une société; to feel out of one’s element.

dépayser (-pè-i-zé), v.a., to take, to send from home; to remove; to put out; to put on a wrong scent.

se dépayser, v.r., to leave one’s home; to go abroad; to get out of one’s element.

dépècement (-pès-mān), n.m., cutting up, cutting in pieces, carving, breaking up, tearing up; dismemberment; eating away (of the sea).

dépecer (dép-sé), v.a., to cut up, to carve, to cut in pieces; to dismember; to eat away. — une volaille; to cut up a fowl. — de la viande; to carve meat.

dépeceur, n.m., carver, cutter, meat-dresser.

dépêche, n.f., dispatch (letter on affairs of state); (com.) correspondence, mail, telegram. Les —s; the post-bag. Faire les —s; to make up the dispatches, the mails.