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Baguette. A baguette ( / bæˈɡɛt /; French: [baɡɛt] ⓘ) is a long, thin type of bread of French origin [ 3] that is commonly made from basic lean dough (the dough, not the shape, is defined by French law). [ 4] It is distinguishable by its length and crisp crust . A baguette has a diameter of about 5 to 6 cm (2– in) and a usual length ...
The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française is the official dictionary of the French language . The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes, even governmental authorities disregard the Académie's rulings.
Baguette. Fougasse. Brioche. Pain de campagne. This is a list of notable French breads, consisting of breads that originated in France. Baguette – a long, thin type of bread of French origin. [ 1][ 2] The "baguette de tradition française" is made from wheat flour, water, yeast, and common salt. It may contain up to 2% broad bean flour, up to ...
cachet. lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque.
Félicité Robert de La Mennais (or Lamennais; 19 June 1782 – 27 February 1854) was a French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist. He was one of the most influential intellectuals of Restoration France. Lamennais is also considered the forerunner of liberal Catholicism and social Catholicism . His opinions on matters of ...
Pain au chocolat is a type of viennoiserie. Viennoiseries ( French: [vjɛnwazʁi]; English: "things in the style of Vienna ") are French baked goods made from a yeast - leavened dough in a manner similar to bread, or from puff pastry, but with added ingredients (particularly eggs, butter, milk, cream and sugar), which give them a richer ...
It excludes combinations of words of French origin with words whose origin is a language other than French — e.g., ice cream, sunray, jellyfish, killjoy, lifeguard, and passageway— and English-made combinations of words of French origin — e.g., grapefruit (grape + fruit), layperson (lay + person), mailorder, magpie, marketplace, surrender ...
The Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (DEAF) is an etymological dictionary of Old French. The lexicographic project was born in the mid-1960s and has been in progress ever since with its headquarters at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany). Known and valued amongst linguists, philologists and medievalists ...