Translation for "foot binding" to french
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Bathing Beauty Competitions, in their day, harmless. Now, as quaint as the bustle, now, as unacceptable as Chinese foot binding.
Concours de maillots, en toute innocence, aujourd'hui parfaitement désuet, inacceptable comme les pieds bandés des Chinoises.
I cannot report to my superiors that the law against foot-binding is being fully enforced in the district of Yang Cheng.
Je regrette tant de ne pouvoir dire à mes chefs... que la loi contre les pieds bandés est appliquée à Wangcheng !
But foot-binding is a very old custom. Some of the people will never obey this law.
interdire les pieds bandés heurte une tradition sacrée.
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