Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Oct 8, 2010 07:06
13 yrs ago
French term
United Kingdom
Qualified specialist translator
Native in: English 
Works in: Italian to English, French to English
fumoir
French to English
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candle making
L’espace devient un cabinet de curiosité où les gravures éclairent le passé et où les grands cierges, les fumoirs, côtoient les chandeliers et les objets anciens.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +2 | bee smoker |
Bourth (X)
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| 5 +1 | smoking room/ smoking lounge |
Constantinos Faridis (X)
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Proposed translations
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30 mins
French term (edited):
ENfumoir
Selected
bee smoker
Given that a fumoir is either a device or a room for smoking meats or fish, or a room where smokers hammer nails into their coffins, they have to mean another word.
An enfumoir is a "bee smoker", the device beekeepers use for hammering nails into tiny little coffins for their wards.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-10-08 09:31:38 GMT)
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Here, a fumoir appears to be a device for burning dried lavander :
http://s2.e-monsite.com/2010/05/18/62846134les-lavandiers-pd...
(not cut/pastable, nor can you search for the word in the text).
I imagine it like those incense burners choir boys swing (at molesting priests).
And here we have fumoir used where enfumoir is meant:
Je me souviens d'un apiculteur , qui ne mettait pas de protections , il avait juste un FUMOIR .Il agissait avec des mouvements lents , observait l'humeur des abeilles en fonction de la météo
http://apres.petrole.online.fr/f/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=370&st...
An enfumoir is a "bee smoker", the device beekeepers use for hammering nails into tiny little coffins for their wards.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-10-08 09:31:38 GMT)
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Here, a fumoir appears to be a device for burning dried lavander :
http://s2.e-monsite.com/2010/05/18/62846134les-lavandiers-pd...
(not cut/pastable, nor can you search for the word in the text).
I imagine it like those incense burners choir boys swing (at molesting priests).
And here we have fumoir used where enfumoir is meant:
Je me souviens d'un apiculteur , qui ne mettait pas de protections , il avait juste un FUMOIR .Il agissait avec des mouvements lents , observait l'humeur des abeilles en fonction de la météo
http://apres.petrole.online.fr/f/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=370&st...
Peer comment(s):
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Alison Sabedoria (X)
: Quite possible if these candles are made of beeswax, otherwise odd.
52 mins
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| agree |
Constantinos Faridis (X)
1 hr
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "still a bit of a mystery but this is definitely the most likely suggestion, thank you!"
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11 mins
smoking room/ smoking lounge
Smoking room (or smoking lounge) refers to a room which is specifically used ...
en.wikipedia.org/.../Smoking_room
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Note added at 17 λεπτά (2010-10-08 07:24:11 GMT)
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fumoir
nom masculin singulier
1 endroit où l'on fume des aliments
2 pièce réservée aux fumeurs
Translation French - Definition Collins Dictionary [Suggest a new translation / definition.]
en.wikipedia.org/.../Smoking_room
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Note added at 17 λεπτά (2010-10-08 07:24:11 GMT)
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fumoir
nom masculin singulier
1 endroit où l'on fume des aliments
2 pièce réservée aux fumeurs
Translation French - Definition Collins Dictionary [Suggest a new translation / definition.]
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
writeaway
: how can it be a room given the context?
37 mins
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| neutral |
Tony M
: I really don't see how this could fit with the other items in the list
1 hr
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| agree |
CKSTraductions
: it is smoking room, if you look at the wikepédia fr ref http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumoir it clearly states that this room was often situated between the curiosities room and the boudoir.
3 days 3 hrs
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Discussion
As for 'gravures', I think these are just conventional 'prints' — it seems to me that the writer is making a pun on 'éclairer', with its literal sense of 'to light or illuminate' (i.e. the candles etc.) and its more figurative use of 'to explain' (something that might be done visually by prints hanging on the walls, for example).
Does any of the above make sense in the light of your wider context?