Mouches

a girl's, and set off by two little "mouches," as we called patches in those days, one at the left corner of his mouth, the other prolonging, as it were, the right eye. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

Plenty of what they call “bateaux mouches” start from the city heart., ❋ Unknown (2008)

Only bad news is that last nights adventure on the baton mouches has given me raging bronchitis. ❋ Karenmiller (2008)

One specific type of floater is either called Muscae volitantes (from the Latin, meaning ‘flying flies’), or mouches volantes (from the French), and consist of small spots. ❋ Unknown (2009)

C'est l'adaptation moderne de "sa majesté des mouches" ❋ Pinku-tk (2008)

Synonym: un gobe-mouche (literally "a swallows flies," or "fly swallower," from the image of a gaper standing with his/her mouth wide open -- a sure target for les mouches!) ❋ Unknown (2006)

Loved the Sartre citation and have to read his "Les mouches" again... ❋ Marina Geigert (2007)

The photograph of the Papier colant et mouches is by J. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Jackie and I sit hunched over the table eating juicy pastèques* and swatting at, but not maiming, les mouches. ❋ Unknown (2005)

PS: As a Canadian entre nous: the French have a rather poetic term for “getting lost in the details”: in the venacular: “enculer des mouches, pourquoi faire?” ❋ Unknown (2007)

Vocabulary: une attrapade (a-tra-pahd) f = a reprimand un attrape-mouches = a fly-catcher un attrape-touristes = a tourist trap attrape-tout (adj) = a catch all ❋ Unknown (2004)

Synonym: un gobe-mouche literally "a swallows flies," or "fly swallower," from the image of a gaper standing with his/her mouth wide open--a sure target for les mouches! ❋ Unknown (2006)

Les bateaux etant construit dans le quartier des mouches, enfin un nom dans l'genre, ils en ont pris le nom! ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)