événement (é-vé-n-mān), n.m., event, occurrence; emergency; issue, end, result. À tout —; at all events; to provide for emergencies. En cas d’—; upon an emergency.
évent, n.m., flatness, vapidness, deadness; open air; vent-hole; air-hole; (artil.) windage. Sentir l’—; to smell vapid. Avoir la tête à l’—; to be thoughtless, hare-brained, scatter-brained.
éventable, adj., liable to go flat.
*éventail, n.m., fan. Fenêtre en —; fan-light.
*éventailliste, n.m.f., fan-maker.
éventaire, n.m., flat basket.
éventé, -e, part., fanned, aired, flat, dead; giddy, thoughtless. Vin —; dead, flat wine. Un homme —; a giddy, scatter-brained man.
éventer, v.a., to fan, to winnow (corn); to air; to deaden; to let (wine) get flat; to injure by exposure to the air; to discover (a mine); to divulge, to get wind of; to let out (a secret); to discover.
s’éventer, v.r., to fan one’s self, to evaporate, to pall, to become flat; to be divulged; to get abroad; to get wind.
éventoir, n.m., fire-fan.