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Ébauche ( loanword from French, meaning blank, outline or sketch) is a preliminary underpainting or quick sketch in oils for an oil painting. Horology, clockmaking and watchmaking appropriated the term ébauche to refer to an incomplete or unassembled watch movement and its associated components. The French term is regularly used by English ...
The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française is the official dictionary of the French language . The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes, even governmental authorities disregard the Académie's rulings.
15 April 2015. (2015-04-15) (aged 94) Occupation (s) Linguist. Grammarian. Lexicographer. Jean Dubois ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ dybwa]; 17 August 1920 – 15 April 2015) was a French linguist, grammarian and lexicographer .
Le Petit Larousse Illustré, commonly known simply as Le Petit Larousse ( French pronunciation: [lə pə.ti laʁus] ), is a French-language encyclopedic dictionary published by Éditions Larousse. It first appeared in 1905 and was edited by Claude Augé, following Augé's Dictionnaire complet illustré (1889). The one-volume work has two main ...
Grand Larousse du XIXe siècle. The Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle ( Great Universal Dictionary of the 19th Century ), often called the Grand Larousse du dix-neuvième, is a French encyclopedic dictionary. It was planned, directed, published, and to a substantial degree written by Pierre Larousse, though he also relied on ...
The Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (DEAF) is an etymological dictionary of Old French. The lexicographic project was born in the mid-1960s and has been in progress ever since with its headquarters at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany). Known and valued amongst linguists, philologists and medievalists ...
Grand Larousse encyclopédique. The Grand Larousse encyclopédique en dix volumes ("Big Larousse encyclopedia in ten volumes") is a French encyclopedic dictionary published by Larousse between February 1960 and August 1964, [1] with two later supplements that update the content to 1975. [2]
Italy high jumper and flag bearer Gianmarco Tamberi wrote an apology note to his wife after losing his wedding ring in the River Seine during the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony.