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Examples

  • The white flower and heart-shaped leaves among the grapes are "bindweed" (le liseron).

    courbature - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Some long twining threads of liseron with its shell pink octagonal flowers and heart-shaped leaves to bind us all together.

    baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • The white flower and heart-shaped leaves among the grapes are "bindweed" le liseron.

    courbature - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Rustic homes and stone cabanos are sprinkled across the hillside with terraces of their own, in terre cuite* and iron, covered with bright red bougainvillea, periwinkle-blue liseron* and other colorful and climbing flowers.

    la marche (Italy, part 1) - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • Some long twining threads of liseron with its shell pink octagonal flowers and heart-shaped leaves to bind us all together.

    baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Rustic homes and stone cabanos are sprinkled across the hillside with terraces of their own, in terre cuite* and iron, covered with bright red bougainvillea, periwinkle-blue liseron* and other colorful and climbing flowers.

    la marche (Italy, part 1) - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • - “liseron” = bindweed - nice white flowers but they smother anything in their path!

    sarcler - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • References: la terre cuite (f) = terracotta; le liseron (m) = bindweed; la marche (f) = stair; le trompe-l'oeil (m) = a style of painting that "fools the eye"; le balcon (m) = balcony; la cucina (f) = kitchen (in Italian)

    la marche (Italy, part 1) - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • References: la terre cuite (f) = terracotta; le liseron (m) = bindweed; la marche (f) = stair; le trompe-l'oeil (m) = a style of painting that "fools the eye"; le balcon (m) = balcony; la cucina (f) = kitchen (in Italian)

    la marche (Italy, part 1) - French Word-A-Day 2006

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