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pièges-à-loups
pyehzh-eh-uh-loop
noun
a wolf trap, usually a pit into which sharpened sticks have been placed such that anything falling into the trap will be impaled
1914Ernest Alfred VizetellyMy Days of Adventure...stakes were being pointed for the many pièges-à-loups…

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