first : nf (word coming from premier).
The word “first” has several meanings:
A.
1. First representation of a play or screening of a film.
The seamstress, the general and the first.
Être guest to a first.
First race of a series.
Play placed in the first.
First parcours of a route, in mountaineering.
first achievement of a sporting achievement.
Thing conducted for the first time.
Operation difficult which is a great first.
– Quotation from the French writer Maylis Le Gal de Kerangal, known as Maylis de Kerangal (born in 1967): “The pioneers, […] media competitors who fought for the first”.
This achievement technical is a first.
2. Slim leather sole inside the shoe (the first to be placed)
first leather. First of cleanliness.
3. Colloquialism: De the first ! of the first quality ; remarkable, exceptional. He did a top job.
A kick from the first.
4. Class preceding the final classes of secondary studies (formerly rhetoric).
Get in the first.
first superior: class preparing for the competitions of the great literary schools (school slang: khâgne).
5. First class in one way de transportation.
He ... not travel whether the first.
– Quote from the French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980): “Take premieres, take luxury cabins”.
6. First gear of an automobile.
Climb a steep slope the first.
– Quote from the French writer Jean-Marie Le Clézio (1940): “He starts the engine, he goes into first gear, he moves forward”.
7. first cover (the first cover page of a book)
B. Seamstress who manages a workshop in a fashion house; by extension: Seamstress specialized.
– Quotation from the French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879): “A first woman crossed the living room with her pincushion tied to her wrist”.