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 Translation for 'palaver' from English to French
NOUN   a palaver | palavers
SYNO blandishment | cajolery | empty talk | ...
bazar {m} [fam.] [tracas]palaver
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Translation for 'palaver' from English to French

palaver
bazar {m} [fam.] [tracas]
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Usage Examples English
  • The Polly palaver on "EastEnders" would never have happened in real life because, although hacks occasionally do shaft their friends, Gita and Sanjay's lack of celebrity would render details of their love life irrelevant".
  • In Ghana, egusi is also called akatoa or agushi, and is used for soup and stew, most popularly in palaver sauce.
  • In Africa, the palaver is a custom of meeting, and of creating or maintaining social links.
  • The first, "The Secret Memoirs of Lord Byron" by Christopher Nicole (1978), was according to "Kirkus Reviews" characterized by "erratic wit, hearty research, and excessive palaver about matters sexual".
  • Created by the architecte Frédéric Keiff in 2007, it looks like a palaver tree, whose trunk and branches are made of painted iron rods, while attached fragments of colored glass represent leaves.

  • In his 1934 pageant play "The Rock", Eliot distances himself from Fascist movements of the 1930s by caricaturing Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, who "firmly refuse/ To descend to palaver with anthropoid Jews".
  • A toguna (or palaver hut), also written as "togu'na" or "togu na" (meaning "great shelter") is a public building erected by the Dogon people in the West African country of Mali.
  • Kongossa may also be understood as the modern urban equivalent of traditional African palaver, a mechanism which affirms social ties through exchange of neighborhood news.
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