cerf

The different sticks are (in descending point value) cerf, chevreuil, renard, blaireau, and lièvre -- and of course the same animals in German.

mauvais perdant - French Word-A-Day 2009

On se rappellera que Benjamin Franklin mit en évidence l'existence de l'électricité grâce à un cerf-volant et que "go fly a kite" signifie certes "lance un cerf-volant", mais aussi "Casse-toi !"

Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010

Par trop aymer and L'homme qui est, but a few, such as Mon seul espoir and J'ay veu le cerf, are Parisian in style with transparent polyphony and often chordal openings.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

I would add bram cohen, vint cerf, danny sullivan, to just name a few.

Dan Gillmor Not Happy With Forbes’ Attack on Blogs 2007

The different sticks are in descending point value cerf, chevreuil, renard, blaireau, and lièvre -- and of course the same animals in German.

mauvais perdant - French Word-A-Day 2009

In seventeenthcentury France it was largely replaced by grated, boiled staghorn corne de cerf.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

In seventeenthcentury France it was largely replaced by grated, boiled staghorn corne de cerf.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

Earnest_, 5th edition, London, J. Murray, 1842, I observed that the author could not explain the meaning of the French term "cerf-volant," applied to the toy so well known among boys in England as a "kite," and in Scotland as a "dragon."

Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 Various

Sorte d'insecte volant qui porte des cornes dentelées, comme celles du cerf.

Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 Various

"Notice sur l'hirondelle, sur le cerf et sur la cigale" (vol. XII), etc.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913