en plein

/ ɑ̃ plɛ̃ /

adjective

from French: in full

"Quatre premiers et quatre en plein," repeated Nancy, mechanically.

She leaned across and with trembling fingers backed number fourteen en plein, with all the carrés and chevaux.

This time he staked on twenty-nine, with the maximum en plein and all the carrés and chevaux.

Yet even here the traveller finds himself already in many ways en plein Orient.

But she was determined to make it substantially a picture en plein air.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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