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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). [36] louche
Ruta graveolens, commonly known as rue, common rue or herb-of-grace, is a species of the genus Ruta grown as an ornamental plant and herb. It is native to the Balkan Peninsula . It is grown throughout the world in gardens , especially for its bluish leaves, and sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions.
LaRue is a French topographic name for someone who lived beside a road, track, or pathway, Old French rue (Latin ruga ‘crease’, ‘fold’), with the definite article la. [1] It literally means "the street" in French. [2] It is a surname and sometime a given name. Notable people with the name include:
De la Rue, De La Rue or Delarue is a surname of French origin meaning "of the Street". Notable people with the surname include: Charles de la Rue (1643–1725), noted orator of the Society of Jesus in France, poet and professor; Edgar Aubert de la Rüe (1901–1991), French geographer, geologist, traveller and photographer
It was about this time that the quartet of the Rue du Vieux Colombier, so famous in French literary history, was formed. It consisted of La Fontaine, Racine, Boileau and Molière, the last of whom was almost of the same age as La Fontaine, the other two considerably younger. Chapelain was also a kind of outsider in the coterie. There are many ...
Catholicon - purported first French dictionary: 1499 Thresor de la langue françoyse tant ancienne que moderne : 1606 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française: 1694 to present Littré: 1877 Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Larousse: 1982-1985 Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle: 1866-1890 Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes
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Francophone literature is literature written in the French language. The existence of a plurality of literatures in the French language has been recognised, although the autonomy of these literatures is less defined than the plurality of literatures written in the English language.