cénacle, n.m., (antiq.) guest-chamber (where the Lord’s supper was taken); (fig.) club, literary coterie.
cendre, n.f., ashes; embers; cinder; dust, ashes (of the dead). C’est un feu qui couve sous la —; it is a smoldering fire. La —, les —s des morts; the ashes of the dead.
cendres, n.f.pl., ashes. — ardentes; live embers. — qui couvent; smoldering ashes. Le mercredi des —; Ash-Wednesday. Mettre en —; to lay in ashes. Renaître de ses —; to rise from one’s ashes.
cendré, -e, adj., ashy. Gris —; ashy gray, pale gray. Lumière —; earth-shine.
cendrée, n.f., small shot.
cendreu-x, -se, adj., ashy, full of, or covered with, ashes.
cendrer, v.a., to paint ash-gray, to ash.
cendrier, n.m., ash-pan, cinder-pail; ash-hole; ash-tray.
*cendrille, n.f., (orni.) tomtit.
cène, n.f., the Lord’s supper, communion.