vassal, n.m., vassal.

vassalité, n.f., vassalage; land held by vassals.

vasselage (vas-laj), n.m., vassalage.

vaste, adj., vast, wide, great, spacious, extensive. — pays; vast country. De —s desseins; great designs. Un lieu —; a vast place. int. (nav.) avast!

vastement, adv., vastly, extensively, hugely, widely, greatly.

vatican, n.m., Vatican, the Palace of the Pope.

va-tout, n.m., () staking all one has, one’s all (at cards).

à vau-de-route, adv. V. à vau-l’eau.

vaudeville (vôd-vil), n.m., (thea.) vaudeville; ballad; (thea.) ballad-opera, ballad-farce (corruption of Vaux de Vire, by Olivier Basselin).

vaudevilliste, n.m., vaudeville-writer; ballad-writer.