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French to English Architecture Translation Glossary

French term		English translation
au fil de l'eau		along the waterside
autiste		not in keeping
avant-corps		"West work" or "West-work" (in medieval architecture)
à déambulatoire		with ambulatory	Yolanda Broad
Entered by: Yolanda Broad
à fleur de		onto the surface of	Sandrine Guyennet
Entered by: Sandrine Guyennet
à reprendre à l’assemblage avec la colonne vertébrale		to be taken up by its connection to the spine
échos francs		flutter echo
économiste		quantity surveyor / cost planner
écuyer		bracket
église à colonnes isolées		church with unengaged columns
église halle		Hall church
égrégor		egregor/collective spirit
émargeage		edge trimming
épannelage		massing (includes: gradation of building heights)
étrier/arbalétrière		balistraria
étude de réceptivité		acceptabilty study
études d'esquisse		(schematic) outline drawings
évolutive par appropriation		which evolves through appropriation
« Une composition d’ensemble au 17e siècle unissant le château, les jardins....		A 17th century bird's eye view...[assuming that we are talking about the drawing/engraving]
baie d’essai		test window
bande servante		service core
bandeaux de diodes		LED panels/rope lights (see answers)
barrait le Nil		controlled the Nile
bas-côté (église)		side-aisle (church)
bas-flanc		partition, dividing wall (for animals)
batiment-pont		linking building, link building
batiments de trois étages sur rez-de-chaussée		4 Storey building
batterie de lame		large diamond blade assembly/battery	daniel gwire
Entered by: daniel gwire
bâche décorative		decorative canopy
bâche fendue		draught curtain
bâti dormant		door frame
bâti en pont		built over the tracks, straddling the tracks
bâti robuste		strong structure	Lorraine Dubuc
Entered by: Lorraine Dubuc
bâtiment à façade unique		single-fronted building / single frontage building
bâtiments officiels		official buildings	Tony M
Entered by: Tony M
béret d\'écaille		scalloped beret
beton balaye		brushed concrete	daniel gwire
Entered by: daniel gwire
billette		billet
bloc		(development) block
blocs programmatiques		programmatic blocks	Sasha Barral-Robinson
Entered by: Sasha Barral-Robinson

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