dépotoir, n.m., general deposit of night-soil.
dépoudrer, v.a., to unpowder.
se dépoudrer, v.r., to unpowder one’s hair.
*dépouille, n.f., spoil; slough, skin, hide; wardrobe (of persons deceased); remains; spoils, booty; crop; exuviæ. — mortelle; mortal remains. La — d’un serpent; the slough of a serpent. L’âme quitta sa — mortelle; the soul forsook its earthly tenement. Il a laissé sa — à un tel; he left his wardrobe to such a one. —s opimes; spolia opima. Il s’enrichit des —s d’autrui; he enriches himself with the spoils of others.
*dépouillé, -e, part., stripped; naked. Jouer au roi —; (fig. and fam.) to compass the ruin of any one.
*dépouillement (dé-poo-i-mān), n.m., spoliation; despoiling; privation; scrutiny (of a ballot-box); abstract (of an account). Au — du scrutin; on the counting of the votes.
*dépouiller, v.a., to unclothe; to strip; to skin, to lay bare; to despoil, to deprive; to throw off; to cast off (of insects); to lay aside; to gather (crops); to inspect (a ballot-box); to present an abstract (of accounts). — ses vêtements; to throw off one’s clothes. — une anguille; to skin an eel.
se *dépouiller, v.r., to shed its skin (of insects and animals); to molt; to divest one’s self of; to strip one’s self of; to throw off; to dispense with; to renounce.
dépouilleur, n.m., teller (of votes by ballot).
dépourvoir, v.a., to leave unprovided or destitute.