faculté, n.f., faculty, ability, propriety, power, virtue, quality; talent; option; right. pl., faculties, means, property. —s intellectuelles; mind, intellectual faculties. Il a la — de parler en public; he has a talent for public speaking. Les —s de l’esprit; the powers of the mind.
fadaise, n.f., trifle, stuff, fiddle-faddle, silliness, silly thing; nonsense, twaddle. —s que tout cela! Tom-foolery!
fadasse, adj., insipid, dull; mawkish, sickening; pale, insignificant.
fade, adj., insipid, unsavory, tasteless, heavy, dull; pointless, tame; flat, stale.
fadement, adv., heavily, dully, spiritlessly, insipidly; mawkishly; tastelessly.
fadeur, n.f., insipidity, insipidness, unsavoriness, tastelessness; silliness; pointlessness; tameness.
fagot, n.m., fagot, bundle; idle story; former convict; ticket of leave. Ame d’un —; small sticks of a fagot. Bois de —; bavin. Il y a —s et —s; there are men and men; or all men or things are not alike. Sentir le —; to be suspected of heresy. Conter des —s; to tell idle stories. Prendre un air de —; to warm one’s self. Être habillé comme un —; to be dressed in a slovenly, slatternly, manner.
fagotage, n.m., fagot-making, fagot-wood, chatwood; brushwood.
fagoté, -e, part., dressed in a slovenly manner. Comme le voilà —; how slovenly dressed he is, or what a fright he looks.
fagoter, v.a., to fagot, to make into fagots; to jumble together; to dress in a slovenly manner, to dress like a fright. Peut-on — ainsi un enfant? how can people make such a fright of a child?