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  2. 135 Cute Things to Say to Your GF When You Want to Cheer Her Up

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    Best said with a throaty growl and your face between her thighs. Let me see if you taste as good as you look. A fine way to ease into the above compliment. You drive me wild. This is the ideal in ...

  3. Complimentary language and gender - Wikipedia

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    Complimentary language and gender. Complimentary language is a speech act that caters to positive face needs. Positive face, according to Brown and Levinson, is "the positive consistent self-image or 'personality' (crucially including the desire that this self-image be appreciated and approved of) claimed by interactions". [1]

  4. 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.

  5. Courtly love - Wikipedia

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    Courtly love (Occitan: fin'amor [finaˈmuɾ]; French: amour courtois [amuʁ kuʁtwa]) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights setting out on adventures and performing various deeds or services for ladies because of their "courtly love".

  6. French honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Nobility and royalty. Kings of France used the honorific Sire, princes Monseigneur. Queens and princesses were plain Madame. Nobles of the rank of duke used Monsieur le duc / Madame la duchesse, non-royal princes used Prince / Princesse (without the Monsieur / Madame), other noblemen plain Monsieur and Madame. Only servants ever addressed their ...

  7. Lagniappe - Wikipedia

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    A lagniappe (/ ˈlænjæp / LAN-yap, / lænˈjæp / lan-YAP) is "a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase" (such as a 13th doughnut on purchase of a dozen), or more broadly, "something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure." [2] It can be used more generally as meaning any extra or unexpected ...

  8. Les Femmes Savantes - Wikipedia

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    Les Femmes savantes (The Learned Ladies) is a comedy by Molière in five acts, written in verse. A satire on academic pretension, female education, and préciosité (French for preciousness), it was one of his most popular comedies and the last of his great plays in verse. It premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on 11 March 1672.

  9. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris - Wikipedia

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    Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris (1992) a TV movie starring Angela Lansbury, Diana Rigg, and Omar Sharif. The film was produced by Lansbury's production company Corymore Productions, and directed by Lansbury's son, Anthony Shaw. Gangoobai (2013) feature film starring Sarita Joshi and Raj Zutshi. A Maid-in-Matheran has lived a life with simple ...