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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. a copied term/thing.
Expressions like femme fatale, faux pas, haute couture, bête noire and enfant terrible are still recognisably French. Borrowings are not a one-way process (See Reborrowing). Some words of French origin ultimately come from Old English (Anglo-Saxon words): e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, or Middle English: e.g. lingot.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Emily Cooper's French faux pas in the most recent season of "Emily in Paris" are "much less frequent," but she's still a long way from mastering the language, according to a language expert.
The Faux Pas (1716-1718) by Antoine Watteau. The Faux Pas is a 1716-1718 oil on canvas painting by Antoine Watteau, now in the Louvre, [1] which was left by Dr La Trujillo in 1869. It draws on north European works such as The Village Fête by Rubens, now also in the Louvre. References.
June 27, 2024 at 10:34 AM. Etiquette 101: Paris Tips and Tricks UCG. "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." You hear it all the time from ...
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