avelinier, n.m., filbert-tree.
avénage, n.m., avenage (due, paid in oats).
avenant, part. V. advenant.
avenant, -e, adj., good-looking, prepossessing, comely, pleasing, taking. Physionomie —e; pleasing features. Manières —es; prepossessing, engaging manners. n., declaration of altered policy (insurance).
à l’avenant, adv., appropriate; in keeping with. Le dessert fut à l’— du repas; the dessert was in keeping with the repast. Et tout à l’—; and all corresponding, matching.
avènement (-mān), n.m., coming, accession, succession, advent. L’— du roi à la couronne; the king’s accession to the crown. L’— du Messie; the coming of the Messiah.
avèneron, n.m., wild oats.
avenir, n.m., the future, futurity, existence, future welfare, hopes, prospects; (jur.) venire facias. À l’—; in future. On ne peut répondre de l’—; one cannot answer for the future. J’assure un — à mes enfants; I secure a competence for my children. Cet homme n’a aucun —; that man has no prospects. D’—, or qui a de l’—; promising, rising.
☉avenir, v.n. V. advenir.
à-venir, n.m. (—), (jur.) summons to an attorney to appear for his client.