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Italian, or French adage, meaning 'slowly, at ease.' Slow movements performed with fluidity and grace. One of the typical exercises of a traditional ballet class, done both at barre and in center, featuring slow, controlled movements. The section of a grand pas (e.g., grand pas de deux), often referred to as grand adage, that features dance ...
Le Chat Noir (French pronunciation: [lə ʃa nwaʁ]; French for "The Black Cat") was a 19th century entertainment establishment in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. It was opened on 18 November 1881 at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart by impresario Rodolphe Salis , and closed in 1897 not long after Salis' death.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Chay ( French pronunciation: [ʃaj] ) is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France .
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
Chay (given name) Chay Weng Yew (1928–2004), Singaporean weightlifter; Jean-Yves Chay (born 1948), French football manager; Chay Wai Chuen (born 1950), Singaporean politician; Chay Yew (born 1965), American playwright; Mark Chay (born 1982), Singaporean swimmer; Chesster Chay (born 1989), Filipino actor
Chay is a masculine name. It is either a diminutive of Charles, [1] ultimately derived from Germanic Karal, Karel, Karl, meaning “man”, or it may be Gaelic in origin, meaning “Fairy Tale”. [2] This unusual name surfaced into the public in Britain in the mid-1970s, with the publicity for yachtsman Chay Blyth.
A chaise longue (/ ʃ eɪ z ˈ l ɒ ŋ, tʃ eɪ z-,-ˈ l ɒ̃ ɡ /; [1] French: [ʃɛz lɔ̃ɡ], "long chair") is an upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs of the sitter. In modern French, the term chaise longue refers to any long reclining chair, such as a deckchair.
Pa Chay Vue, (RPA: Paj Cai Vwj or Puas Cai Vwj; Pahawh: 𖬖𖬰𖬪𖬵 𖬋𖬯 𖬘𖬲𖬜), commonly referred to as Pa Chay or Batchai, led the Hmong people in the War of the Insane revolt against French rule in French Indochina from 1918 to 1921. He was considered a hero among the Hmong nationalists, but regarded as a crazed man among the ...