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The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline, cleavage. In French it means: 1. action of lowering a female garment's neckline; 2. Agric.: cutting leaves from some cultivated roots such as beets, carrots, etc.; 3. Tech.
Note that the word in French has retained the general meaning: e.g. château in French means "castle" and chef means "chief". In fact, loanwords from French generally have a more restricted or specialised meaning than in the original language, e.g. legume (in Fr. légume means "vegetable"), gateau (in Fr. gâteau means "cake").
A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
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The DEAF can be typologised as a descriptive dictionary of Old French focussing more on linguistic than on traditional philological aspects. However it systematically includes encyclopedic information in semantic analysis and above all by providing a great number of citations serving to illustrate and corroborate senses given in (usually scholastic) definitions. [3]
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
Cajun: a style of cooking named after French settlers who made their way to Louisiana in the 1700s.Cajun food often uses ingredients like peppers, onions, celery, and herbs, in addition to a lot ...
This slang is used as a parallel to the "like" word used by some American slang; the French word for "like", comme, may also be used. [ example needed ] These words appear often in the same sentence as the word tsé ( tu sais = you know) as a form of slipped words within spoken structure.