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cachet. 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.
Or, "[Comedy/Satire] criticises customs through humour", is a phrase coined by French Neo-Latin poet Jean-Baptiste de Santeul (1630–1697), but sometimes wrongly attributed to his contemporary Molière or to Roman lyric poet Horace. Casum sentit dominus: accident is felt by the owner
L. La guerre sans nom. Laissez les bons temps rouler. Lanterne rouge. Lapalissade. Le bruit et l'odeur. Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Lieu-dit. Longest word in French.
Joie de vivre ( / ˌʒwɑː də ˈviːv ( rə )/ ZHWAH də VEEV(-rə), French: [ʒwa d (ə) vivʁ] ⓘ; " joy of living ") is a French phrase often used in English to express a cheerful enjoyment of life, an exultation of spirit, and general happiness . It "can be a joy of conversation, joy of eating, joy of anything one might do….
La plume de ma tante. (phrase) La plume de ma tante ("my aunt's quill") is a phrase in popular culture, attributed to elementary French language instruction (possibly as early as the 19th century [ 1]) and used as an example of grammatically correct phrases with limited practical application that are sometimes taught in introductory foreign ...
All hands on deck/to the pump. All is grist that comes to the mill [a] All roads lead to Rome [a] [b] All that glitters/glistens is not gold [a] [b] All the world loves a lover [a] All things come to those who wait [a] All things must pass [a] All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy [a] [b] All you need is love.
Let them eat cake. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (left) who coined the phrase " qu'ils mangent de la brioche " in 1765. In the years following the French Revolution, the quotation became attributed to Marie Antoinette (right), although there is no evidence that she said it. " Let them eat cake " is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu ...
The expression Laissez les bons temps rouler (alternatively Laissez le bon temps rouler, French pronunciation: [lɛse le bɔ̃ tɑ̃ ʁule]) is a Louisiana French phrase. The phrase is a calque of the English phrase "let the good times roll", that is, a word-for-word translation of the English phrase into Louisiana French Creole. This phrase is ...