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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. canard (canard means "duck" in French) an unfounded rumor or anecdote.
The word coffee in various European languages [8] The most common English spelling of café is the French word for both coffee and coffeehouse; [9] [10] it was adopted by English-speaking countries in the late 19th century. [11] The Italian spelling, caffè, is also sometimes used in English. [12]
abaissement - fall/lowering; abaisser - to lower; abandonner - to abandon; abandonné - abandoned/deserted; abasourdi - stunned; abattage - slaughter; abattant - toilet lid
Later coffee tables were designed as low tables, and this idea may have come from the Ottoman Empire, based on the tables in use in tea gardens. As the Anglo-Japanese style was popular in Britain throughout the 1870s and 1880s, [ 5 ] and low tables were common in Japan , this seems to be an equally likely source for the concept of a long low table.
Generally, words coming from French often retain a higher register than words of Old English origin, and they are considered by some to be more posh, elaborate, sophisticated, or pretentious. However, there are exceptions: weep , groom and stone (from Old English) occupy a slightly higher register than cry , brush and rock (from French).
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Image credits: IsolatedPSup #3. In Spanish "constipado" means you have a cold. Spaniards have been getting massive diarrhea on top of the cold they already had in every English and French speaking ...
The English word furniture is derived from the French word fourniture, [2] the noun form of fournir, which means to supply or provide. [3] Thus fourniture in French means supplies or provisions. [4]