Usage examples of "à robe noire" in French with translation to English

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La garde-robe d'une femme n'est pas complète sans une petite robe noire. A woman's wardrobe isn't complete without a little black dress.
Elle est très comme il faut dans une robe de soirée noire. She is very becoming in a black party dress.
La robe avait un joli contraste entre le rouge et le blanc. The dress has a beautiful contrast between red and white.
Une obscurité noire est un exemple de pléonasme. A black darkness is an example of a pleonasm.
Cette robe lui va vraiment bien. That dress really becomes her.
Assise dans son fauteuil en peau de panthère, la jeune femme en lingerie rouge lisait à haute voix un livre intitulé « La princesse noire ». Sitting in her panther hide chair, the young woman, clad in red lingerie, was reading aloud a book titled "The Black Princess".
Choisis la robe que tu veux. Choose any dress you like.
La cheminée crache de la fumée noire. The chimney is belching black smoke.
Elle portait une robe rouge. She wore a red dress.
Tom conduit une voiture noire, n'est-ce pas ? Tom drives a black car, doesn't he?
Elle préférerait tirer les avantages du célibat que d'acheter une belle robe blanche. She would rather take advantage of being single than buy a beautiful white dress.
C'était une nuit noire. It was a dark night.
Aucune femme n'aime porter une robe qu'une autre a mise au rebut. Avec les hommes, elles ne font pas autant les difficiles. No women like to wear a dress that another discarded. With men, they're not so choosy.
Je préférerais la noire, là. I would prefer the black one, there.
Tom a cousu une nouvelle robe pour Jill. Tom made Jill a new dress.
Tout à coup, la sonnette de la porte de devant tinta et l'ombre noire d'un homme seul se glissa tranquillement à l'intérieur. All of a sudden, the front door bell rang and the dark shadow of a lone man slipped in quietly.
J'ai fait cette robe moi-même. I made that dress by myself.
Ses cheveux sont de couleur noire et sont longs. His hair is black in color and long.
La robe est verte. The dress is green.
De la fumée noire s'exhalait par les fenêtres du troisième étage. Black smoke spewed out of the third-story windows.
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