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étape
[ ey-tap; French ey-tap ]
noun
, Military.
, plural é·tapes [ey-, taps, ey-, tap].
- a place where troops camp after a day's march.
- a day's march.
- Archaic. supplies issued to troops during a march.
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Ce mot ne te dit rien: dans le filon de la grande carrière médicale, c'est une étape nécessaire.
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It was snowing hard now––a perfect geography scene, lacking only the 13 wolves; but the étape was only half finished.
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It was the rest house at the end of the étape––a tiny, distant speck on the snowy plain.
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Mais il revint, et nous fîmes encore une bonne étape de vie intellectuelle, morale et philosophique.
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