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2. Dandy - Wikipedia

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   A dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance and personal grooming, refined language and leisurely hobbies. A dandy could be a self-made man both in person and persona, who emulated the aristocratic style of life regardless of his middle-class origin, birth, and background, especially during the late 18th and early ...

3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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   cachet. 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.

4. Fop - Wikipedia

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   A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette, denoting a cavalier attitude. Fop became a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, [1] fribble, popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), dandy, fashion-monger, and ninny.

5. Reverso (language tools) - Wikipedia

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   96 million monthly active users (June 2019) [1] Reverso is a French company specialized in AI-based language tools, translation aids, and language services. [2] These include online translation based on neural machine translation (NMT), contextual dictionaries, online bilingual concordances, grammar and spell checking and conjugation tools.

6. Tasque (software) - Wikipedia

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   Tasque is an open source task management application/project, part of the GNOME community. Its name was partially inspired by the French village by the same spelling. "Tasque" in French is pronounced the same as the word "task" is in English.

7. List of English words with dual French and Old English ...

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   List of English words with dual French and Old English variations. 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 ...

8. Collins-Robert French Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   PC2640 .C69 2006b. The Collins Robert French Dictionary (marketed in France as Le Robert et Collins Dictionnaire) is a bilingual dictionary of English and French derived [clarification needed] from the Collins Word Web, an analytical linguistics database. As well as its primary function as a bilingual dictionary, it also contains usage guides ...

9. List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia

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   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 ...