flesh

peau, chair

La couche extérieure qui recouvre le corps d’une personne ou d’un animal.

En anglais simple : The skin covering a person or animal.

• The sun burned her exposed flesh.
• Cold air touched the bare flesh of his arms.
• The sharp wire cut into my flesh.

Synonymes : skin

Expressions courantes : bare flesh, exposed flesh, pale flesh

chair, viande

Parties molles d’un animal que les humains peuvent manger.

En anglais simple : The soft parts of an animal that people can eat.

• The flesh was tender.
• They removed the flesh from the bones.
• Some animals feed on the flesh of other animals.

Synonymes : meat

Expressions courantes : animal flesh, raw flesh, eat flesh

chair, pulpe

Partie tendre à l’intérieur d’un fruit ou d’un légume, souvent consommée.

En anglais simple : The soft part inside a fruit or vegetable, often eaten.

• The peach has sweet flesh.
• Scoop the flesh out of the melon.
• These pumpkins have firm orange flesh.

Synonymes : pulp

Expressions courantes : melon flesh, soft flesh, sweet flesh

couleur chair

Rose pâle légèrement jaunâtre, semblable à certaines peaux claires.

En anglais simple : A pale yellowish pink colour like some light skin.

• She mixed white and pink to make flesh.
• The old paint chart lists a shade called flesh.
• He chose flesh as the colour for the doll.

Expressions courantes : flesh colour, flesh tone

étoffer, développer

Enrichir une idée, un projet ou un texte en y ajoutant des détails.

En anglais simple : To add more details to an idea, plan, or piece of writing.

• We need to flesh out the plan.
• She fleshed out her story with details about the village.
• Can you flesh this idea out before our meeting?

Comment l'utiliser : flesh out something (Please flesh out your proposal.); flesh something out (We can flesh it out tomorrow.)

Synonymes : expand, develop

Expressions courantes : flesh out something, flesh something out

engraisser

Faire prendre du poids à un animal, notamment en le nourrissant bien.

En anglais simple : To make an animal gain weight, especially by feeding it well.

• They used grain to flesh the cattle.
• Fresh pasture helped flesh the sheep.
• The farmer fleshed his animals before winter.

Synonymes : fatten

Expressions courantes : flesh cattle, flesh sheep

écharner

Retirer la viande et la graisse d’une peau animale avant de la transformer en cuir.

En anglais simple : To remove meat and fat from an animal skin before making leather.

• Workers flesh the hides by hand.
• He fleshed the skin with a special knife.
• You must flesh each hide before treating it.

Expressions courantes : flesh a hide, flesh animal skins