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Glockengasse 4 in Cologne, the headquarters of 4711 Third address book of Cologne, 1797, page 179. On 3 October 1794, in view of the French troops standing just outside Cologne, the city council approved a plan proposed by the guard-committee to number all houses in the city without exception and to install what would be considered appropriate lighting for each location.
In English, eau only exists in words borrowed from French, and so is pronounced similarly in almost all cases (like in plateau, bureau).Exceptions include beauty and words derived from it, where it is pronounced /juː/, bureaucrat where it is pronounced /ə/, bureaucracy where it is pronounced /ɒ/, [4] and (in some contexts) the proper names Beaulieu and Beauchamp (as /juː/ and /iː ...
Heliotrope Blanc: L.T. Piver Louis-Toussaint Piver [7] 1853 Eau de Cologne Impériale: Guerlain: Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain 1872 Hammam Bouquet: Penhaligon's: William Henry Penhaligon [8] 1882 Fougère Royale: Houbigant: Paul Parquet: 1882 Tsvetochniy: Brochard and Co. (now Novaya Zarya) Anri Brochard [9] 1885 Au Fil de l'Eau: Lenthéric ...
Eau de toilette (French: [o d(ə) twalɛt], meaning "grooming water") [n 1] is a lightly scented perfume. [2] It is also referred to as aromatic waters and has a high alcohol content. [ 3 ] It is usually applied directly to the skin after bathing or shaving. [ 4 ]
Ahead, experts share the best way to apply perfume and cologne (a little goes a long way!) — and explain why it can be hard to tell when you’ve gone overboard.
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For a number of speakers, syllable-initial /v/ has a number of realizations in free variation: [], [], and [].; While Colognian has only one lateral phoneme /l/, it has a variety of allophonic realizations; coarticulation leads to the so-called "clear" L occasionally, but the "dark" ([]) or palatal ([]) variants are common in Colognian pronunciation.
eau de Cologne eau de Cologne a type of perfume, originating in Cologne. Its Italian creator used a French name to commercialize it, Cologne at that time being under the control of France. eau de toilette lit. ' grooming water '. It usually refers to an aromatic product that is less expensive than a perfume because it has less of the aromatic ...