Translation for 'white cane' from English to French

white cane [for blind person]

canne {f} d'aveugle

• Its logo is called the whosit and consists of an outline of a walking person with a white cane.
• He hands him his white cane and unties him and the "game" is about to commence.
• Guilly d'Herbemont (June 25, 1888 – February 28, 1980) was the inventor of the white cane for blind people.
• He was armed only with his white cane and a note that claimed he had a gun.
• A white cane is a device used by many people who are blind or visually impaired.

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• Most still attended residential institutions, but that number dropped steadily as the years wore on - especially after the white cane was adopted into common use as a mobility tool and symbol of blindness in the 1930s.
• using a Kinect or an ultrasound phone cover as a virtual white cane, or using the built-in camera to algorithmically analyze single, respectively a stream of pictures for obstacles, with Wang et al.
• She was also one of the few parliamentarians with a physical disability, having become partially blind due to an illness in early 2010; she used visual aids and a white cane until late 2011.