Ratiboiser & Cafi: Two Fun Words from The Olive Harvest

Our story begins in Le Beausset… just over the hill from Bandol. TODAY'S WORD: Ratiboiser     : to chop    : to plunder, pinch, swipe  Ratiboiser also means "couper à ras" (to cut very short). When you return from the hairdresser's and your locks were cut too short, you could say, "Ils m'ont ratiboisé les cheveux. They completely cut my hair!" A DAY IN … Continue reading Ratiboiser & Cafi: Two Fun Words from The Olive Harvest

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Still pinching images from Google image search (I promise I took these!) after my computer crashed one week ago (typing this post on my son's PC)…. This photo was snapped in St. Tropez. Its artist theme fits with today's story of the "tree artists" (or pirates, rather…). Read on, in today's column. chaparder (sha-par-day)      to pinch, to lift, to steal A DAY IN A … Continue reading chaparder