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four

oven

noun FOOR Less Common
Home & Lifestyle Utensils

Origin: Latin 'furnus' (oven)

Also means

flop (informal)

Usage Note

Four means 'oven' in cooking (mettre au four — to put in the oven), but also refers to a kiln used in ceramics or glassmaking. In informal French, un four means a total failure or flop — a show or film that bombs. Un four à micro-ondes is a microwave oven; often shortened in speech to le micro-ondes.

Examples

"Le gâteau cuit au four pendant trente minutes."

Natural Translation

The cake bakes in the oven for thirty minutes.

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