DRAFT-DODGING - Translation from English into French

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I. réfractaire [ʀefʀaktɛʀ] ADJ

1. réfractaire:

réfractaire (opposé): recalcitrant (à to)

réfractaire (insensible): impervious (à to)

réfractaire MED: resistant (à to)

2. réfractaire (résistant à la chaleur):

réfractaire matériau: refractory

brique réfractaire: firebrick, refractory brick

argile réfractaire: fireclay

3. réfractaire HISTORY:

réfractaire prêtre: nonjuring

réfractaire conscrit: draft-dodging

II. réfractaire [ʀefʀaktɛʀ] N mf

1. réfractaire (opposant):

réfractaire: recalcitrant

les réfractaires à l'aventure/au progrès: those resistant to adventure/to progress

2. réfractaire HISTORY:

réfractaire (prêtre): nonjuring priest

réfractaire (conscrit): draft dodger

réfractaire (travailleur): French civilian who refused to be drafted to work in Germany in 1942–44

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