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la prunelle

apple of one’s eye; pupil

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apple of one’s eye; pupil In “la prunelle de mes yeux,” it means someone especially precious or beloved. Literally, prunelle means “pupil.”
FR: Ma fille est la prunelle de mes yeux.
EN: My daughter is the apple of my eye.

Tu es la prunelle de mes yeux.

You are the apple of my eye.

Je veillerai sur lui comme sur la prunelle de mes yeux.

I’ll watch over him as carefully as I would my own eyes.

— Le Tambour (1979)

Cette femme est la prunelle de mes yeux, Maître Copperfield.

This woman is the apple of my eye, Master Copperfield.

— L'Histoire personnelle de David Copperfield (2019)

Passepartout eut comme une sensation d'humidité autour de la prunelle.

Passepartout felt a kind of dampness around his pupil.