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Père Noël. Père Noël (French pronunciation: [pɛʁ nɔ.ɛl]), "Father Christmas", sometimes called 'Papa Noël' ("Dad Christmas"), is a legendary gift-bringer at Christmas in France and other French-speaking areas, identified with the Father Christmas and/or Santa Claus of English-speaking territories.
au pair a young foreigner who does domestic chores in exchange for room and board. In France, those chores are mainly child care/education. au revoir ! "See you later!" In French, a contraction of Au plaisir de vous revoir ('to the pleasure of seeing you again'). au sec lit. "almost dry", reducing liquid to the point of almost dry but food is ...
An au pair (/ oʊ ˈ p ɛər /; pl.: au pairs) is a person working for, and living as part of, a host family. Typically, au pairs take on a share of the family’s responsibility for child care as well as some housework, and receive a monetary allowance or stipend for personal use. Au pair arrangements are often subject to government ...
Grýla is said to eat naughty children, while the cat eats anyone who doesn’t receive a new item of clothing (so make sure to gift your friends at least a pair of socks), and the Yule Lads (each ...
Christmas carol group at Bangalore, India Children singing Christmas carols in California A brass band playing Christmas carols in the UK. A Christmas carol is a carol (a song or hymn) on the theme of Christmas, traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas and holiday season.
Bernard Noël (19 November 1930 – 13 April 2021) [1] was a French writer and poet. He received the Grand Prix national de la poésie (National Grand Prize of Poetry) in 1992, the Prix Robert Ganzo (Robert Ganzo Prize) in 2010, [2] as well as the Grand prix de poésie from the Académie Française for his entire poetic work in 2016.
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. A classic example of a cumulative song, the lyrics detail a series of increasingly numerous gifts given to the speaker by their "true love" on each of the twelve days of Christmas (the twelve days that make up the Christmas season, starting with Christmas Day).
The pair — who initially tied the knot during a lavish wedding in Sardinia, Italy, on Sept. 28 — made it official in Wilson’s native country. Wilson, 44, shared photos from the legal wedding ...