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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. a copied term/thing.
The Simurgh also advises him to compliment a scorched garden and insult a blooming garden by saying the opposite of what they are; compliment a crooked bridge and a crooked gate; exchange the fodder of two animals (hay for a horse, bones for a dog); lastly, when he reaches the Queen's room, he is to tie strands of her hair to 40 pillars in her ...
Complimentary language and gender. Complimentary language is a speech act that caters to positive face needs. Positive face, according to Brown and Levinson, is "the positive consistent self-image or 'personality' (crucially including the desire that this self-image be appreciated and approved of) claimed by interactions". [1]
Best said with a throaty growl and your face between her thighs. Let me see if you taste as good as you look. A fine way to ease into the above compliment. You drive me wild. This is the ideal in ...
Auprès de ma blonde. " Auprès de ma blonde " (French for "Next to My Girl") or " Le Prisonnier de Hollande " ("The Prisoner of Holland ") is a popular chanson dating to the 17th century. The song tells the story of a woman who laments to the birds in her father's garden that her husband is a prisoner in Holland.
Kings of France used the honorific Sire, princes Monseigneur. Queens and princesses were plain Madame. Nobles of the rank of duke used Monsieur le duc / Madame la duchesse, non-royal princes used Prince / Princesse (without the Monsieur / Madame), other noblemen plain Monsieur and Madame. Only servants ever addressed their employer as Monsieur ...
Les Femmes savantes (The Learned Ladies) is a comedy by Molière in five acts, written in verse. A satire on academic pretension, female education, and préciosité (French for preciousness), it was one of his most popular comedies and the last of his great plays in verse. It premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on 11 March 1672.
Henri Betti (music) André Hornez (French lyrics) Jerry Seelen (English lyrics) " C'est si bon " (pronounced [sɛ si bɔ̃]; transl." It's so good") is a French popular song composed in 1947 by Henri Betti with the lyrics by André Hornez. The English lyrics were written in 1949 by Jerry Seelen. The song has been adapted in several languages.