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en garde "[be] on [your] guard". "On guard" is of course perfectly good English: the French spelling is used for the fencing term. en passant in passing; term used in chess and in neurobiology ("synapse en passant.") En plein air en plein air lit. "in the open air"; particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors. en pointe en pointe
Le Tout-Paris (lit. ' All-Paris ' ) is a French expression referring to the stylish and affluent elite of Paris , who frequent fashionable events and places, and establish trends in upper-class culture.
An exception to this is the adverb tout "wholly, very" which agrees in gender and number with the adjective it modifies when it is in the feminine and begins with a consonant (e.g. tout petit "very small, m.s.", tous petits "very small, m.pl." but toute petite "very small, f.s.", toutes petites "very small, f.pl." — when beginning with a ...
"Ticket tout" is a British term for a scalper, someone who engages in ticket resale for more than the face value of the ticket. In recent years some British ticket touts have moved into Internet ticket fraud. [3] In the sports betting world, a tout is someone who sells picks of winners against the spread and the over/under.
Tous may refer to: Tous (company), a Spanish jewelry designer; Tous, Iran; Tous, Valencia, a municipality of the province of Valencia, Valencia Community, Spain; Tous son of Nowzar; Trotskyist Organization of the United States (TOUS), an American Trotskyist group; Paco Tous (born 1964), Spanish actor
"Tous les secrets" (meaning "all the secrets") is the second single from Celine Dion's 2005 French-language greatest hits album, On ne change pas and also a theme song from the animated movie Asterix and the Vikings. [1]
All Boys Are Called Patrick (French: Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick) is a 1957 French short film written by Éric Rohmer and directed by Jean-Luc Godard and made before both filmmakers achieved fame as French New Wave filmmakers.
Hadriana in All My Dreams (French: Hadriana dans tous mes rêves) is a 1988 novel by Haitian author René Depestre. Set in Jacmel, Haiti, and spanning a period of 40 years, the plot follows a young French woman, Hadriana Siloé, who is turned into a zombie on her wedding day. The novel explores themes of colonialism, exile, and sexuality.