quill

plume

Instrument fait d'une grande plume d'oiseau dont on trempe la pointe dans l'encre pour écrire.

En anglais simple : A pen made from a large bird feather, used by dipping its point in ink.

• He wrote with a quill.
• She dipped her quill in black ink.
• The museum displays several quills beside an old letter.

Synonymes : quill pen, feather pen

Expressions courantes : quill pen, write with a quill, dip a quill

piquant

Pointe dure et acérée poussant sur la peau d'un animal, notamment du porc-épic, pour le protéger.

En anglais simple : A stiff, sharp point growing from an animal's skin, especially a porcupine's, that helps protect it.

• A quill stuck in the dog's nose.
• The porcupine raised its quills.
• The vet carefully removed three quills from his paw.

Synonymes : spine

Expressions courantes : porcupine quill, sharp quill, remove a quill

calamus, tube de plume

Partie inférieure creuse d'une plume, sans les ramifications souples sur les côtés.

En anglais simple : The hollow lower part of a feather, without the soft parts growing from its sides.

• The feather has a hollow quill.
• She examined the quill under a microscope.
• The quills were still attached to the bird's skin.

Synonymes : calamus

Expressions courantes : feather quill, hollow quill, base of a quill

plume

Instrument pour écrire, notamment lorsqu'on en parle dans un style ancien ou poétique.

En anglais simple : A pen used for writing, especially when writing is described in an old or poetic style.

• The poet took up his quill.
• Her quill produced another beautiful verse.
• He laid his quill beside the unfinished story.

Synonymes : pen

Expressions courantes : take up a quill, a poet's quill, put a quill aside

blesser avec des piquants

Blesser une personne ou un animal en lui enfonçant des piquants d’animal dans la peau.

En anglais simple : To hurt an animal or person by sticking sharp animal spines into their skin.

• Our dog got quilled in the woods.
• The porcupine quilled the dog's nose.
• A vet treated the puppy after it was quilled.

Comment l'utiliser : be/get quilled by something (The dog was quilled by a porcupine.)

Expressions courantes : quill a dog, quill an animal

écrire

Mettre des mots sur le papier.

En anglais simple : To put words on paper.

• She quilled a short poem.
• The young poet quilled verses by candlelight.
• He quilled a letter to his distant love.

Synonymes : write, pen

Expressions courantes : quill a poem, quill a letter, quill a verse

plisser en tuyaux

Former dans un tissu une suite de petits plis arrondis en forme de tubes.

En anglais simple : To arrange cloth in a series of small, rounded folds.

• She quilled the ribbon by hand.
• The dressmaker quilled the fabric along the collar.
• We learned to quill a narrow strip of cloth.

Synonymes : pleat

Expressions courantes : quill fabric, quill a ribbon, quill the trim

souffler du poivre dans le nez

Souffler du poivre dans le nez d’une femme qui accouche, selon une ancienne pratique censée accélérer la naissance.

En anglais simple : To blow pepper into a woman's nose during childbirth in an old practice intended to speed birth.

• The old account describes a midwife quilling a woman.
• Some women were quilled with pepper during difficult births.
• The historian found records of mothers being quilled to hasten labour.

Expressions courantes : quill a woman, quill during childbirth