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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 ...
In August 1975, journalists and new reports complained that "the papers had misled the poor and encouraged them to consider powdered heads their enemies," a “calculated to excite riots.” [29] With the new legislation, the powdered look became a marker of class in English society and a much more exclusive one, polarizing those who used the ...
Paraphrase: "I don't look handsome; I am handsome." Some South Slavic words that have no English counterparts are doček, a gathering organized at someone's arrival (the closest translation would be greeting or welcome, although a 'doček' is not necessarily positive); and limar, a sheet metal worker.
Fernando I the Handsome (1345–1383), King of the Kingdom of Portugal; Geoffrey the Handsome or Geoffrey Plantagenet (1113–1151), Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, and father of King Henry II of England; Oleg I the Handsome (13th century), Prince of Ryazan (in present-day Russia) Philibert the Handsome or Philibert II (1480–1504), Duke of ...
"Number 12 Looks Just Like You" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It is set in a dystopian future in which everyone, upon reaching adulthood, has their body surgically altered into one of a set of physically attractive models.
Madame d'Aulnoy greatly expanded the tale. Her tale is sometimes translated as The Wild Boar [4] [5] or Prince Wild Boar. [6]A queen who desperately wants to have a child dreams that three fairies talk about giving her a child: one gives her a handsome, amiable, and loved son; the second gives her to see the son succeed at everything; and the third muttered something under her breath.
Andreas Deja initially struggled with the concept of animating a handsome villain in Beauty and the Beast. Deja ultimately based Gaston's appearance on those of handsome soap opera actors in order to create a grotesque version of the Prince Charming stock character. In other languages, like Spanish and Italian, he is called the "Blue Prince".
The French Rococo painter Antoine Pesne (1683–1757), [44] who worked at the Prussian court for many years and was appointed director of the Berlin Academy of Arts, chiefly depicted Frederick in his younger years, his earliest portrait being that of Frederick with his older sister, Wilhelmine, as children (c.1714–15).