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English desert and its Romance cognates (including Italian and Portuguese deserto, French désert and Spanish desierto) all come from the ecclesiastical Latin dēsertum (originally "an abandoned place"), a participle of dēserere, "to abandon". [2]
Clafoutis is a baked French dessert of fruit, traditionally black cherries, [1] arranged in a buttered dish and covered with a thick flan-like batter. Crème brûlée consists of a rich custard base topped with a contrasting layer of hard caramel.
a location where troops assemble prior to a battle. While this figurative meaning also exists in French, the first and literal meaning of point d'appui is a fixed point from which a person or thing executes a movement (such as a footing in climbing or a pivot). porte-cochère an architectural term referring to a kind of porch or portico-like ...
Dessert wines are sweet wines typically served with dessert. There is no simple definition of a dessert wine. In the UK, a dessert wine is considered to be any sweet wine drunk with a meal, as opposed to the white [25] fortified wines (fino and amontillado sherry) drunk before the meal, and the red fortified wines (port and madeira) drunk
The name Ténéré comes from the Tuareg language, meaning "desert", in much the same way as the Arabic word for "desert", Sahara, came to be applied to the region as a whole. [ 1 ] Climate
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Les Déserts ( French pronunciation: [le dezɛʁ] ) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France .
Blancmange (/ b l ə ˈ m ɒ n ʒ /, [1] from French: blanc-manger [blɑ̃mɑ̃ʒe], lit. ' white eat ') is a sweet dessert popular throughout Europe commonly made with milk or cream and sugar, thickened with rice flour, gelatin, corn starch, or Irish moss [2] (a source of carrageenan), and often flavoured with almonds. It is usually set in a ...
A mille-feuille (French: [mil fœj]; lit. ' thousand-sheets '), [notes 1] also known by the names Napoleon in North America, [1] [2] vanilla slice in the United Kingdom, and custard slice, is a French dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream.