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The French word for smoke is
fumée





smoke

Gender

The gender of fumée is feminine. E.g. la fumée.

French Definition


smoke
     1. n. Fumée.
           Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. (Bleak House - Charles Dickens)
           La fumée tombe des tuyaux de cheminée, bruine molle et noire, traversée de petites pelotes de suie qu'on prendrait pour des flocons de neige portant le deuil du soleil.
     2. n. (Canada) (Normandie) Fumée.
     3. n. (Argot) (Cigarette) Clope.
     4. v. Fumer.
           Let's smoke a cigarette.
     5. v. Fumer, boucaner.
           Let's smoke the meat, to preserve it.



Translations for smoke and their definitions

fumée
     1. adj. feminine singular of fumé
           truite fumée - Smoked trout
     2. Participle. feminine singular of fumé
     3. n-f. smoke
     4. n-f. steam
     5. n-f. spoor (of game animals)


fumer
     1. v. to smoke
     2. v. to emit smoke
     3. v. to steam


fumée
     1. adj. feminine singular of fumé
           truite fumée - Smoked trout
     2. Participle. feminine singular of fumé
     3. n-f. smoke
     4. n-f. steam
     5. n-f. spoor (of game animals)


clope
     1. n-f. (slang) a cigarette butt, a fag end
     2. n-f. (slang) a cigarette


descendre
     1. v. to go down
     2. v. to descend
     3. v. to put down; disparage
     4. v. to kill (someone)
     5. v. to stay (in a hotel or other temporary lodging)


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