What is "peau"

Usage examples of "peau".

Les saillies que faisaient les plis de ses rides semblaient, sous sa peau de parchemin, des cordes tendues.

Pardonnez-moi de vous surprendre dans votre peau de bourgeois laborieux, lui dit-il.

Her hand fell first to a full-skirted dress of pale rose peau de sole trimmed with a cascade of delicate silk roses.

And yet, how many of us have at this very moment a peau de chagrin of our own, diminishing with every costly wish indulged, and incapable, like the magical one of the story, of being arrested in its progress Need I say that I refer to those coupon bonds, issued in the days of eight and ten per cent interest, and gradually narrowing as they drop their semiannual slips of paper, which represent wishes to be realized, as the roses let fall their leaves in July, as the icicles melt away in the thaw of January?

Accordingly, he bid me don my patent leather boots, and was horrified to find that I wanted to put on gloves of peau de chamois.

Le lendemain, je me reveillai par un grand soleil, avec la langue seche et la peau brulante.

Enfers, qui le prend pour Hercule en voyant la massue et la peau de lion.

His eyes openly examined the strapless, skin-colored lace corselette before they moved down the length of sheer silk stockings to the white peau de soie heels.

Through her peau de soie glove, she felt the brief touch of his lips.