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a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [35] louche
A famous one shows the Eiffel Tower welcoming de Gaulle during the Liberation of Paris, bending to embrace him, and calling him mon grand. Other cartoons in the 1960s show Marianne, the personification of France, casually conversing with de Gaulle, and calling him mon grand. In French, mon grand is the way a mother tenderly calls her son.
From Latin gustāre meaning to taste; antonym form appeared in Old French desgouster: Disheveled, Dishevelled Sheveled, [a] Shevelled [a] Not attested. Disheveled is from Old French deschevelé. Exasperate Asperate Synonym. To make rough, a similar connotation to exasperate's secondary meaning of increasing the intensity of pain. Feckless Feckful
As with all armed forces throughout history, the French Grande Armée of the Napoleonic Wars used a colorful and extensive vocabulary of slang terms to describe their lives, times and circumstances and express their reactions towards them. This is a partial glossary article meant to supplement the articles on La Grande Armée and Military slang ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
In social theory, a metanarrative (also master narrative, or meta-narrative and grand narrative; French: métarécit or grand récit) is an overarching narrative about smaller historical narratives, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea.
Ariana Grande has a message for her critics on the remix of Charli XCX’s song “Sympathy Is a Knife.” “Sympathy Is a Knife” first appeared on Charli XCX’s album Brat and unpacks the ...
Grande means "large" or "great" in many of the Romance languages. It may also refer to: Places. Grande, Germany, a municipality in Germany;