No. 11,674 in French
saupoudrés
Sprinkled.
In a sentence
Les beignets étaient saupoudrés de sucre.
The donuts were sprinkled with sugar.
Here, 'saupoudrés' is used to describe the action of sprinkling sugar over donuts as part of the preparation or garnishing.
Les idées sont parfois saupoudrées d'un peu de fantaisie pour captiver les lecteurs.
Ideas are sometimes sprinkled with a bit of fancy to captivate readers.
In this sentence, 'saupoudrées' is used metaphorically to express the addition of creativity or imagination to the ideas.
Ses paroles étaient saupoudrées de sagesse.
His words were sprinkled with wisdom.
'Saupoudrées' is metaphorically employed here to depict words containing traces or elements of wisdom.
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