Talk:papillon

meaning number 5
Hello,

I've never heard papillon for leaflet, when someone talk of a papillon sur le parebrise we should read there is a parking ticket on the windshield. And the sample sentence means that for a long time almost no one would pay parking tickets in Paris. --Cqui (talk) 15:55, 22 February 2017 (UTC)


 * ✅ Equinox ◑ 19:00, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Minute papillon
Hello,

Regarding the interjection, papillon would not be used in this meaning out of this interjection, or may be to talk about someone that can't stay still when we need to talk seriously. I've heard that interjection quite a few time when I was young ;-)

--Cqui (talk) 16:02, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

French: part of a windmill
In French, papillon can also be part of a windmill. Anyone know the English? See e.g.. Equinox ◑ 18:59, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Perhaps butterfly valve? The examples are for controlling water flows but it could work with wind as well I guess. – Jberkel 00:08, 21 December 2020 (UTC)