☉étaiement, n.m., propping, staying, shoring, supporting, bearing up. V. étayement.
étaim (è-tin), n.m., fine carded wool.
étain, n.m., tin; pewter. — fin; pure tin. — commun; block tin. — métallique; white tin. — oxydé; tin-stone. — en feuilles; tin-foil. — de glace; tin-glass.
étal, n.m., stall; butcher’s stall; butcher’s shop.
étalage, n.m., laying out, exposing of goods for sale; goods exposed for sale; shop-window; window; stallage; finery, fine clothes; showing off, ostentatious display, show. Cela n’est bon qu’à servir d’—; that will only serve for show. Faire — de son esprit; to parade one’s wit. Faire de l’—; to make a show, to show off.
étalagiste, n.m., stall-keeper, window-dresser.
étale, adj., (nav.) still; slack (of the water); settled, steady (of the wind). Mer —; slack water, tide.
étalé, -e, part., spread out, unfolded, displayed.
étaler, v.a., to expose for sale; to put in the shop-window; to spread, to spread out; to show, to set forth, to display, to parade, to make a show or parade of, to show off.
s’étaler, v.r., to be exposed for sale; to be hung up in the window; to be displayed, to be spread out; to stretch one’s self out, to sprawl; to show one’s self off, to show off. S’— sur l’herbe; to stretch one’s self at full length on the grass.