étourneau, n.m., (orni.) starling; giddy fellow; flea-bitten horse.
étourneau, adj., flea-bitten (of horses).
étrange, adj., strange, odd, queer, novel; uncouth. Chose —! strange! strange to say! C’est une personne bien —; she is a very queer sort of a person.
étrangement (é-tranj-mān), adv., strangely, queerly; terribly.
étrang-er, -ère, adj., strange; foreign; unknown; irrelevant; outlandish. Ministre des affaires —ères; minister for foreign affairs. Être — à une science; to be unacquainted with a science. Un fait — à la cause; a fact unconnected with or foreign to the case. Corps —; extraneous body. Une langue —e; a foreign language.
étrang-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., foreigner, stranger, alien, outsider; foreign parts. C’est un —; he is a foreigner. À l’—; abroad. Passer à l’—; to go abroad.
☉étranger, v.a., to estrange, to drive away.
s’étranger, v.r., (hunt.) to desert a country, to disappear from (of game).
étrangeté (é-tranj-té), n.f., strangeness; oddness, queerness.
☉étranglant, -e, adj., strangling; overwhelming, amazing; decisive.