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Legends of the houles fairies depict them as living in families and caves, like those on the cliffs of Cap Fréhel.. Houle, or more rarely goule, is the name given to cavities, particularly in rocks by the sea or in river banks, [1] and to caves and grottos in the cliffs of the Normandy coast, the Channel Islands and the north coast of Upper Brittany.
Illustration for the tale "La houle du châtelet", 1883.Published in Paul Sébillot's Contes de terre et de mer.. The stories and fragments of legends have many features in common, enabling us to reconstruct the idea that the inhabitants of the north coast of Upper Brittany had of the houles fairies in the 19th century.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
In French, les objets trouvés, short for le bureau des objets trouvés, means the lost-and-found, the lost property. outré out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary ...
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Houlle ( French pronunciation: [ul] ; West Flemish : Holne ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France .
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Houilles (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is a northwestern suburb of Paris , located 14.2 km (8.8 mi) from the center of Paris .
Michel Houellebecq (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer.