archi blindé

23:08 Jul 5, 2014 

;-)

23:00 Jul 5, 2014 

Sorry. but you are somewhat "blindé", according to your own definition of the term, to the reality of the development of the French language. I think that Dominic is just more in touch with current usage and the Académie Française prove by their own protest against it that the term is actually used in the way they disapprove of.

08:58 Jul 5, 2014 

The only times I have ever heard arch - blindé in connection with a bar means it's packed out. I don't think you need more context than that, especially when the asker says it's a "trendy bar"

08:52 Jul 5, 2014 

I've been living in France for 21 years and it's something I've heard for over 10 years I think.

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=936384&langi...
here's a subject thread going back to 2008

08:42 Jul 5, 2014 

Perhaps this is a very recent usage? But it is something I hear all the time over here in France (in conversation), whereas I have never personally encountered 'bondé' in a conversational context.

08:41 Jul 5, 2014 

It's a slang word that is used in the same way as bondé. The Académie Française recognises its usage and says it's not good French!
http://www.academie-francaise.fr/blinde

08:25 Jul 5, 2014 

See the "blindé" entry in this thesaurus : in B -- "ivre" (slang) and in A -- "reinforced" or metaphorically "impervious/immune". No reference whatsoever to "crowded", "packed out", etc.
http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/tlfiv5/advanced.exe?8;...

08:18 Jul 5, 2014 

Impossible to know how relevant this is given the absence of context but in any "French Urban Dictionary" worth its salt, "blindé" would feature among the hundred odd terms meaning "drunk".
See here :
http://www.crisco.unicaen.fr/des/synonymes/bourré

08:13 Jul 5, 2014 

"fully crowded" and "packed out" is "bondé", not "blindé". Blindé means "totally immune/impervious to (personal) attacks" or for inanimates "reinforced", literally. I can't see how a trendy bar could be described as "blindé" though, unless there is some reference in the context to its structure/architecture as being particularly "secure", perhaps. More context needed.

17:48 Jul 4, 2014 

Afraid not, my text is strictly confidential. However, Tony has confirmed what I thought it meant. "Fully crowded" would not be a natural way of expressing it in English.

17:28 Jul 4, 2014 

Hello, would it be possible to have a little sentence with this? Could it simply mean 'fully crowded'.