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a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [35] louche
Note that the word in French has retained the general meaning: e.g. château in French means "castle" and chef means "chief". In fact, loanwords from French generally have a more restricted or specialised meaning than in the original language, e.g. legume (in Fr. légume means "vegetable"), gateau (in Fr. gâteau means "cake").
Angel cake: United Kingdom [1] A type of layered sponge cake, often garnished with cream and food coloring. Angel food cake: United States: A type of sponge cake made with egg whites, sugar, flour, vanilla, and a whipping agent such as cream of tartar. Apple cake: Germany: A cake featuring apples, occasionally topped with caramel icing ...
A traditional Taiwanese cake commonly made using eggs, egg yolk, low-gluten flour, honey and a small portion of sugar. The cake filling leaks out when sliced, similar in appearance to a volcano. Conversation: France: A patisserie developed in the late 18th century that is made with puff pastry, filled with a frangipane cream, and topped with ...
List of French dishes – common desserts and pastries; Pâtisserie – a French or Belgian bakery that specializes in pastries and sweets. In both countries it is a legally controlled title that may only be used by bakeries that employ a licensed maître pâtissier (master pastry chef). Feuilletine, an ingredient of French confectionery, made ...
The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...
It is a soft, round pound cake, made of flour, sugar, [1] salted butter, [2] eggs, and almond meal, [3] then dampened with a punch of rum and lemon, [1] sometimes with an apricot gelée centre. [3] The round shaped cake top is topped with a white glaze thinned with rum, although lemon or orange blossom water can be substituted if the cake is to ...
The following words are commonly used and included in French dictionaries. le pull: E. pullover, sweater, jersey. le shampooing, [1] the shampoo; le scoop, in the context of a news story or as a simile based on that context. While the word is in common use, the Académie française recommends a French synonym, "exclusivité". [2] le selfie.