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à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu". In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes from the menu rather than a fixed-price meal.
The Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux (French pronunciation: [ʁeʒi dez‿alkɔl de kuʁs e de ʒø], RACJ) is the board established by the government of Quebec to regulate the alcohol, lottery, publicity contests, gambling, racing, and combat sports industries. There are seventeen commissioners on the board, including a president ...
Course (music), a pair or more of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and played together to give a single note, in a stringed instrument; Course (sail), the principal sail on a mast of a sailing vessel; String course, a continuous narrow horizontal course or moulding which projects slightly from the surface of a wall
The word entrée as a culinary term first appears in print around 1536 in the Petit traicté auquel verrez la maniere de faire cuisine, more widely known from a later edition titled Livre fort excellent de cuisine [b], in a collection of menus [c] at the end of the book.
The National Centre for Distance Education (Centre national d'enseignement à distance or Cned in French) is a French public institution under the oversight of the Department of Education dedicated to providing distance learning material.
Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (French pronunciation: [kɔmisjɔ̃ de titʁ dɛ̃ʒenjœʁ]; in English: Accreditation authority for French professional engineers, abbreviated in French as "CTI") is the main committee responsible for evaluation and accreditation of higher education institutions for the training of professional engineers in ...
A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass index, that could change clinical care.
The term grande école originated in 1794 after the French Revolution, [13] when the National Convention created the École normale supérieure, the mathematician Gaspard Monge and Lazare Carnot created the École centrale des travaux publics (later the École polytechnique), and the abbot Henri Grégoire created the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers.