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le mot juste lit. "the just word"; the right word at the right time. French uses it often in the expression chercher le mot juste (to search for the right word). motif a recurrent thematic element. moue a type of facial expression; pursing together of the lips to indicate dissatisfaction, a pout. See snout reflex. mousse
Le Bon Usage (French pronunciation: [lə bɔn‿yzaʒ], Good Usage), informally called Le Grevisse, is a descriptive book about French grammar first published in 1936 by Maurice Grevisse, and periodically revised since. It describes the usage of the French language, primarily in its written literary form.
The following list details words, affixes and phrases that contain Germanic etymons. Words where only an affix is Germanic (e.g. méfait, bouillard, carnavalesque) are excluded, as are words borrowed from a Germanic language where the origin is other than Germanic (for instance, cabaret is from Dutch, but the Dutch word is ultimately from Latin/Greek, so it is omitted).
Le Bon (French for "the Good") may refer to: Fulk II, Count of Anjou (circa 905–960), nicknamed Foulques le Bon; John II of France (1319–1364), nicknamed Jehan le Bon; Philip the Good (1396–1467), Duke of Burgundy; in French Philippe le Bon; Joseph Le Bon (1765–1795), French politician; Philippe LeBon (1767–1804), French engineer
Good Samaritans alerted the boy’s mother and chased Monsalve down the street, forcing her to release the toddler. They then called the police, who found her nearby.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused in a new lawsuit of dangling a woman from the 17th-floor balcony of an apartment during an altercation. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by fashion designer ...
The sacres originated in the early 19th century, when the social control exerted by the Catholic clergy was increasingly a source of frustration. [2] One of the oldest sacres is sacrament, which can be thought of as the Franco-Canadian equivalent of the English "goddamn it". It is known to have been in use as early as the 1830s.
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