forêt vierge

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fɔ.ʁɛ vjɛʁʒ/
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Noun

forêt vierge f (plural forêts vierges)

  1. (botany) Synonym of forêt primaire (“virgin forest”)
    • 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince‎, Chapter I:
      Lorsque j’avais six ans j’ai vu, une fois, une magnifique image, dans un livre sur la forêt vierge qui s’appelait Histoires vécues. Ça représentait un serpent boa qui avalait un fauve.
      When I was six years old I saw, one time, a magnificent picture, in a book on the virgin forest called Stories lived. It was of a boa that was swallowing a large cat.
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