Chambers French Dictionary (9th edition)

Chambers French Dictionary has a respectable lineage as Harrap's Shorter French (1st ed., 1940, 1944, 2 v.), described by all the blurbs as “France's favourite bilingual French and English dictionary for nearly seven decades”. This re‐named edition (an extra title page proclaims the 9th ed. of Harrap's Shorter) represents the eighth revision and includes the most recent coinages and colloquialisms among its 375,000 words and 500 common English and French idioms (up by 100 since the Harrap's shorter 7th ed. of 2004) (RR 2005/250).

I was soon reminded why the original was published in two volumes – the...