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Three bottles of eau de vie.The flavors are framboise (raspberry), zinfandel grape, and Kirsch (cherry).. An eau de vie [A] (French for spirit, [1] lit. ' water of life ') is a clear, colourless fruit brandy that is produced by means of fermentation and double distillation.
lit. "with juice", referring to a food course served with sauce. Often redundantly formulated, as in 'Open-faced steak sandwich, served with au jus.' No longer used in French, except for the colloquial, être au jus (to be informed). au naturel 1. a. Nude. b. In a natural state: an au naturel hairstyle. 2. Cooked simply.
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
Vineyards in the Beaujolais wine region, located just south of Burgundy. As far back as the 1800s, Beaujolais growers would gather to celebrate the end of the harvest by toasting the vintage with some of the young wine produced that year (this is part of the French tradition of vin de primeur, or "early wines", released in the same year as harvest, which 55 appellations in France are allowed ...
Coq au vin (/ ˌ k ɒ k oʊ ˈ v æ̃ /; [1] French: [kɔk o vɛ̃], "rooster/cock with wine") is a French dish of chicken braised with wine, lardons, mushrooms, and optionally garlic.A red Burgundy wine is typically used, [2] though many regions of France make variants using local wines, such as coq au vin jaune (), coq au riesling (), coq au pourpre or coq au violet (Beaujolais nouveau), and ...
French wines are usually made to accompany food. Vineyards in Vosne-Romanée in Burgundy, a village that is the source of some of France's most expensive wines Château Pichon Longueville Baron in Pauillac corresponds well to the traditional image of a prestigious French château, but in reality, French wineries come in all sizes and shapes.
Trésor de la langue française au Québec logo. The Trésor de la langue française au Québec ( Treasury of the French language in Quebec , TLFQ) is a project created in the 1970s with the primary objective of establishing a scientific infrastructure for research into the history of Quebec French and, also, its current usage. [ 1 ]
Some words lack a lexical opposite due to an accidental gap in the language's lexicon. For instance, while the word "devout" has no direct opposite, it is easy to conceptualize a scale of devoutness, where "devout" lies at the positive end with a missing counterpart at the negative end.