se rapatrier, v.r., to return to one’s native country, to return home; to be reconciled; to be friends again, to make it up.
râpe, n.f., grater; rasp; stalk; stem of grapes, V. rafle. pl., (vet.) malanders, V. malandre.
râpé, n.m., rape-wine (fresh grapes put into a vessel of spoiled wine to improve it); rappee. — de copeaux; chips to clarify wine.
râpé, -e, part., (of clothes) shabby, threadbare, seedy, worn out. Du tabac —; rappee. Un habit —; a threadbare coat.
râper, v.a., to grate, to rasp. Se —; to be rasped; (fig.) to become threadbare, to be worn out.
rapetassage, n.m., patching, mending, cobbling.
rapetasser (rap-ta-sé), v.a., to patch, to patch up, to piece, to botch, to mend, to cobble.
rapetasseu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., botcher, piecer, cobbler; (fig.) compiler, adapter.
rapetissement, n.m., shortening; (fig.) belittling.
rapetisser (rap-ti-sé), v.a., to belittle, to dwarf, to shorten, to make less, shorter, smaller.