plat, n.m., dish; plate; collection-plate; (nav.) mess; sheet (of glass); flat side (of anything). — d’argent; silver dish. — de la main; back of the hand. — apprêté; made dish. — réchauffé; warmed-up dish. — à barbe; shaving dish. Camarade de —; messmate. — de l’équipage; (nav.) mess (for seven men). Servir un — de son métier; to give a specimen of one’s work. C’est un — de son métier; this is one of his tricks. —s de balance; scales of a balance. Des coups de — d’épée; strokes with the flat of a sword. Donner du — de la langue; to flatter, to coax, to wheedle; to talk blarney. Mettre les pieds dans le —; to put one’s foot in it. Mettre les petits —s dans les grands; to spare neither money nor trouble to receive a person.
plat, -e, adj., flat; dull, insipid, spiritless, pointless, low, shallow, empty; (of the hair) straight, lank; (of rhymes) consecutive. Un pays —; a flat country. Cheveux —s; straight hair. Elle a la physionomie —e; she has an unmeaning countenance. Vin —; flat wine. Cheval —; lank horse. Avoir le ventre —; to have an empty belly. Sa bourse est bien —e; his purse is very low. Son armée a été battue à —e couture; his army was utterly routed. Un pied —, un — pied; a worthless fellow. Un style —; a flat, spiritless, pointless style. C’est un — personnage; he is a dull fellow. À —; flat. À — ventre; flat on the ground, flat on one’s face.
platane, n.m., plane-tree, platane.
plat-bord, n.m., (—s-—s) (nav.) gunwale, gunnel, port-last. Lisses de —; drift-rails.
plateau, n.m., wooden scale; waiter, tray, tea-tray; upland, table-land. — à découper; butler’s tray. — de carafe; decanter-stand.
plate-bande, n.f., (—s-—s) (arch., hort.) plat-band; border plot, flower-bed. — de baie; lintel of a door or window.
platée, n.f., (arch.) massive foundation under the whole area of the building; dishful.
plate-forme, n.f., (—s-—s) platform. — de batterie; platform of a battery. — de fondation; (carp.) sleepers.
plate-longe, n.f., (—s-—s) kicking-strap; leading-rein.
platement (plat-mān), adv., flatly, dully, plainly, without spirit.