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Quinze, Quince, also known as Ace-low, is a 17th-century French banking game of Spanish origin that was much patronized in some parts of Europe. It is considered a forerunner of the French Vingt-et-un , a game very popular at the court of Louis XV , [ 1 ] and also a two-player simplification of the modern game of Blackjack .
French 75 is a cocktail made from gin, champagne, lemon juice, and sugar.It is also called a 75 cocktail, or in French simply a soixante quinze ('seventy five').. The drink dates to World War I, when in 1915 an early form was created at the New York Bar in Paris — later Harry's New York Bar — by barman Harry MacElhone.
A Quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables.The word comes from the French word quinze, meaning fifteen.The syllables are distributed over three lines so that there are seven syllables in the first line, five in the second line, and three in the third line (7/5/3).
Exterior of a quinzhee, facing the entrance. A quinzhee or quinzee / ˈ k w ɪ n z iː / is a Canadian snow shelter made from a large pile of loose snow that is shaped, then hollowed.
In Romance languages there are the terms quincena (or quince días) in Galician and Spanish, quinzena or quinze dies in Catalan and quinze dias or quinzena in Portuguese, quindicina [citation needed] in Italian, quinze jours or quinzaine in French, and chenzină in Romanian, all meaning "a grouping of 15". Semitic languages have a "doubling ...
The Louis XV style or Louis Quinze (/ ˌ l uː i ˈ k æ̃ z /, French: [lwi kɛ̃z]) is a style of architecture and decorative arts which appeared during the reign of Louis XV. From 1710 until about 1730, a period known as the Régence , it was largely an extension of the Louis XIV style of his great-grandfather and predecessor, Louis XIV .
In Brazil, a Portuguese-speaking country, a similar celebration is called festa de debutantes, baile de debutantes, or festa de quinze anos. In the French Caribbean and French Guiana , it is called fête des quinze ans .
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