enchaux, n.m., lime-wash.
enchère, n.f., bidding (at an auction); auction. Vente à l’—, aux —s; sale by auction. Couvrir une —; to make a higher bid. Vendre à l’—, aux —s; to sell by auction. Folle —; bidding for what one cannot pay. Mettre aux —s; to bring to the hammer; to put up to auction. Payer la folle —; to pay dear for one’s rashness. Il est à l’—; he is to be bought by the highest bidder. — au rabais; a Dutch auction.
enchérir, v.a., to bid for, to outbid, to overbid; to raise (prices).
enchérir, v.n., to bid, to outbid; (fig.) to surpass, to outdo, to go further; to rise (in price). La volaille a enchéri; poultry has risen in price.
enchérissement (-ris-mān), n.m., rise, increase, advance in price.
enchérisseur, n.m., bidder (at an auction).
enchevalement, n.m., propping, underpinning (of a house).
enchevauchure, n.f., (tech.) lapping over.
enchevêtré, -e, part., entangled; confused; in a tangle, mixed up.
enchevêtrement, n.m., entanglement; confusion.