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Versailles was made the préfecture of the Yvelines département, the largest chunk of the former Seine-et-Oise. At the 2017 census the Yvelines had 1,438,266 inhabitants. [8] The Hôtel de Ville has been the meeting place of the town council since 1900. [9] Versailles is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese (bishopric
Versailles, Yvelines, a town and a suburb of Paris, France; which contains the palace; Arrondissement of Versailles, which contains the town Versailles-Chantiers station, a train station there, on the intercity line to Normandy and Brittany, amongst others; Versailles Cathedral, a Roman Catholic church located in Versailles, France
When the château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a suburb of Paris, some 20 kilometres southwest of the French capital. The court of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 ...
Furthermore, the list excludes compound words in which only one of the elements is from French, e.g. ice cream, sunray, jellyfish, killjoy, lifeguard, and passageway, and English-made combinations of words of French origin, e.g. grapefruit (grape + fruit), layperson (lay + person), magpie, marketplace, petticoat, and straitjacket.
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
Generally, words coming from French often retain a higher register than words of Old English origin, and they are considered by some to be more posh, elaborate, sophisticated, or pretentious. However, there are exceptions: weep , groom and stone (from Old English) occupy a slightly higher register than cry , brush and rock (from French).
Title: Year: Catholicon - purported first French dictionary: 1499 Thresor de la langue françoyse tant ancienne que moderne (): 1606 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française: 1694 to present
abaissement - fall/lowering; abaisser - to lower; abandonner - to abandon; abandonné - abandoned/deserted; abasourdi - stunned; abattage - slaughter; abattant - toilet lid