une douche (doosh) noun, feminine
1. a shower

Also:
les douches = shower room(s)

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Expressions:

une douche froide = a letdown, a terrible disappointment
prendre une douche = to take a shower
passer à la douche = to go for a shower
prendre une bonne douche = to get soaked
une douche écossaise = an alternately hot and cold shower

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Citation du Jour:

Une bonne colère vaut mieux qu’une bonne douche. La douche fatigue, la colère apaise…
A good fit is better than a good shower. The shower relaxes, the fit relieves. –Henri Jeanson

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A Day in a French Life…

(The story that originally appeared here, with the French vocabulary below, is now a part of this book.)

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*References: un pointu (m) = small fishing boat; un après-midi (m) = an afternoon; un oursin (m) = a sea urchin; le monde (m) = the world; le cabanon (m) = cottage ; la porte (f) door; la belle-mère (f) = mother-in-law; le déjeuner (m) = lunch; le supion (m) = calamari; le loup (m) = sea bass; un bain d’oiseau = a bird bath; réfléchir = to think, to reflect; un pichet (m) = a jug; que dal (or que dalle)= rien du tout = nothing at all; une mauvaise réputation (f) = a bad reputation; rouge-tomate = tomato red; Lyonnais(e) = someone from Lyon; rigoler = to laugh, to joke (about); elle est Lyonnaise = she is from Lyon