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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.
Loser (hand gesture) Child making the loser gesture. The loser is a hand gesture made by extending the right thumb and index fingers, leaving the other fingers closed to create the letter L, interpreted as "loser", and generally given as a demeaning sign. [1] Sometimes this is accompanied by raising the hand to the giver's forehead.
In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. This early 20th-century work is his most prominent, known both for its length and its theme of ...
The name "rock paper scissors" is simply a translation of the Japanese words for the three gestures involved in the game, [4] though the Japanese name for the game is different. The name Roshambo or Rochambeau has been claimed to refer to Count Rochambeau, who allegedly played the game during the American Revolutionary War. The legend that he ...
In 1913, a journalist well known for rhyming slang, for the New York Evening, by the name of "T.A. Dorgan," published the phrase "my dogs are barking" in reference to his feet. From that point forward the word has been used as slang for feet. In the early 2020s the term "dogs out" gained popularity referring to someone's toes being exposed.
This list excludes words that come from French, but were introduced into the English language via a language other than French, which include commodore, domineer, filibuster, ketone, loggia, lotto, mariachi, monsignor, oboe, paella, panzer, picayune, ranch, vendue, and veneer. English words of French origin can also be distinguished from French ...
Loser (hand gesture), a hand gesture made by extending the thumb and index fingers, leaving the other fingers closed to create the letter L, interpreted as "loser", and generally given as a demeaning sign. Loser (mountain), a mountain in Ausseerland, Styria, Austria. One of the three peaks in the Leuser Range. The website Loser.com.
Louis Johnson (bassist) (1955–2015), American bass player and singer, member of The Brothers Johnson. Louis Jordan (1908–1975), pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter. Louis Jourdan (1921–2015), French actor. Louis Jouvet (1887–1951), French actor and director.