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Barbara R. Cochran, MFA   asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	bauce
Context:	Les avirons carrés sonnaient entre les volets de fer; et cela marquait dans le silence comme un battement de métronome, tandis qu'à l'arrière la bauce qui traînait ne discontinuait pas son petit clapotement doux dans l'eau.

 

The answer of Claude Le Frapper   was rated best

painter

My comment:

Hi Barbara: There seem to be a lot of misprints in Madame Bovary. Read my reference. Flaubert was actually talking about a "bosse", defined as "Corde fixée à une extrémité de l'embarcation" by the GDT, and translated as "painter".

My references:

http://www.amis-flaubert-maupassant.fr/article-bulletins/048_036/

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