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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). 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 ...

  3. Allons à Lafayette - Wikipedia

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    English Allons à Lafayette, c'est pour changer ton nom. On va t’appeler Madame, Madame Canaille Comeaux. Petite, t’es trop mignonne pour faire ta criminelle. Comment tu crois que moi, je peux faire comme ça tout seul. Mais toi, mon joli Coeur, regarde donc ce que t’as fait. Je suis si loin de toi, mais ça, ça m' fait pitié

  4. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  5. Liberté (poem) - Wikipedia

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    “Liberté… J’écris ton nom”: Eluard’s poem and the Cambridge UL Liberation collection, European languages across borders blog, 2023. Liberté de Paul Eluard frenchtoday.com. This link leads to a translation by a native French-speaker who understands her own language, even if native English-speakers might argue with some of the phrasing.

  6. Tout - Wikipedia

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    "Ticket tout" is a British term for a scalper, someone who engages in ticket resale for more than the face value of the ticket. In recent years some British ticket touts have moved into Internet ticket fraud. [3] In the sports betting world, a tout is someone who sells picks of winners against the spread and the over/under.

  7. List of pseudonyms - Wikipedia

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    It may be a soldier's nom de guerre or an author's nom de plume. It may be a performer's stage name or an alias used by visual artists, athletes, fashion designers, or criminals. Pseudonyms are occasionally used in fiction such as by superheroes or other fictional characters.

  8. Chữ Nôm - Wikipedia

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    Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6]

  9. Haitian Creole - Wikipedia

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    Castelline, a speaker of Haitian Creole, recorded in the United States. Haitian Creole (/ ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l /; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]; [6] [7] French: créole haïtien, [kʁe.ɔl a.i.sjɛ̃]), or simply Creole (Haitian Creole: kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official ...