lambruche or lambrusque, n.f., (bot.) wild vine, fox grape.
lame, n.f., plate, sheet (metal.); (anat.) lamina; blade; sword, swordsman; (nav.) billow, surge, wave; (pers.) hussy, jade, blade; (bot.) gill; wire (of gold, of silver). Fine —; sly hussy (of a woman). Entre deux —s; in the trough of the sea. Emporté par une —; washed away. — de fond; ground-swell. La — use le fourreau; the steel wears away the scabbard; the mind wears out the body. Bonne —; good swordsman.
lamé, -e, adj., laminated.
lamelle, n.f., lamella.
lamellé, -e, adj. V. lamelleux.
lamelleu-x, -se (la-mèl-leû), adj., lamellated, lamellar; scaly.
lamentable, adj., lamentable, woeful; mournful, rueful, sad, distressing.
lamentablement, adv., lamentably, mournfully, woefully, ruefully.
lamentation, n.f., lamentation, bewailing, wailing; lament, whining.
lamenter, v.a., to lament, to bewail, to bemoan, to mourn, to mourn over.