sauvage, n.m.f. and adj., savage; savage, wild, untamed; shy, timid; unsociable; uncivilized; rude, brutal, barbarous.
sauvagement, adv., wildly; savagely; fiercely.
sauvageon (-jon), n.m., (agri.) wild stock.
sauvagerie (sô-va-jrî), n.f., unsociableness; shyness, wildness.
sauvagesse, n.f., uncivilized woman; (fam.) a woman destitute of education and manners, a scold, a shrew.
sauvagin, n.m., taste, or smell, of water-fowl.
sauvagin, -e, adj., fishy (in taste). Sentir le —; to taste fishy, to smell fishy.
sauvagine, n.f., wild water-fowl; odour of water-fowl; (com.) common unprepared skins or furs.
sauvegarde (sôv-gard), n.f., safe-keeping, safeguard; shield, buckler, protection. —s de beaupré; (nav.) man-ropes of the bowsprit; rudder pendant.
sauvegarder (sôv-gardé), v.a., to protect, to safeguard.