papier colle-mouches

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.pje kɔl.muʃ/

Noun

papier colle-mouches m (plural papiers colle-mouches)

1. flypaper

   Synonyms: papier à mouches, papier tue-mouches

   • 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 164; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:

     Le long de la rue, les commerçants prosternés au fond de leur boutique, la casquette tournée visière sur la nuque, priaient bien fort au milieu des pots de mélasse, des navets, des pains de sucre, des sacs de lentilles et des papiers colle-mouches, que le ciel les conserve dans toutes ces possessions.

     — All along the street, the shopkeepers were prostrated inside their shops, caps turned round with the visor toward the nape, praying hard – among their jars of treacle, turnips, loaves of sugar, sacks of lentils, and flypapers – that Heaven would maintain them in all their possessions.

Hypernyms

• attrape-mouches
• tue-mouches