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lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.
Note that, say, "This is not the Le Corbusier that the public is allowed to see" would normally be, in French, "Celui n'est pas le Le Corbusier que le public est autorisé à voir." The pseudonym derives from an Old French professional surname equivalent to "The Cobbler", and Dali's grammatical maltreatment is what one should expect from ...
A prie-dieu (French: literally, "pray [to] God") is a type of prayer desk primarily intended for private devotional use, but which may also be found in churches. A similar form of chair in domestic furniture is called "prie-dieu" by analogy. [1] Sometimes, a prie-dieu will consist only of the sloped shelf for books without the kneeler.
Secretary desk. Look up escritoire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A secretary desk or escritoire is made of a base of wide drawers topped by a desk with a hinged desktop surface, which is in turn topped by a bookcase usually closed with a pair of doors, often made of glass. The whole is usually a single, tall and heavy piece of furniture.
Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks). Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as tables and desks ...
Desk. A desk or bureau is a piece of furniture with a flat table -style work surface used in a school, office, home or the like for academic, professional or domestic activities such as reading, writing, or using equipment such as a computer. [1][2] Desks often have one or more drawers, compartments, or pigeonholes to store items such as office ...
The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) 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.
A washstand with pitcher (jug) and towel rack, sometimes known as a commode. In the English-speaking world, commode passed into cabinet-makers' parlance in London by the mid-eighteenth century to describe chests of drawers with gracefully curved fronts, and sometimes with shaped sides as well, perceived as being in the "French" taste.