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cachet. 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.
"Ça plane pour moi" (French pronunciation: [sa plan puʁ mwa]) is a 1977 song by Belgian musician Plastic Bertrand. [1] The music is also used in the song "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" by Elton Motello. [2] The song has been covered by many artists, though the original recording was the most successful, reaching No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart in mid-1978.
Ah! vous dirai-je, maman. " Ah! vous dirai-je, maman " (French: [a vu diʁeʒ (ə) mamɑ̃], English: Oh! Shall I tell you, Mama) is a popular children's song in France. Since its composition in the 18th century, the melody has been applied to numerous lyrics in multiple languages – the English-language song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is ...
V̇O 2 max (also maximal oxygen consumption, maximal oxygen uptake or maximal aerobic capacity) is the maximum rate of oxygen consumption attainable during physical exertion. [1] [2] The name is derived from three abbreviations: "V̇" for volume (the dot over the V indicates "per unit of time" in Newton's notation), "O 2" for oxygen, and "max" for maximum and usually normalized per kilogram of ...
Like many markers of health and fitness, VO₂ max naturally declines as you age. “VO₂ max tends to peak for men in their mid-to-late 20s. For women, it’s a little later, like early 30s. But ...
Au clair de la lune. " Au clair de la lune " from a children's book, c. 1910–1919. MIDI rendition. " Au clair de la lune " (French pronunciation: [o klɛʁ də la lyn (ə)], [1] lit. 'By the Light of the Moon') is a French folk song of the 18th century. Its composer and lyricist are unknown. Its simple melody (Play ⓘ) is commonly taught to ...
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [ 12 ] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [ 12 ] The input text had to be translated into English first ...
Demain dès l'aube (English: Tomorrow at dawn) is one of French writer Victor Hugo 's most famous poems. It was published in his 1856 collection Les Contemplations. It consists of three quatrains of rhyming alexandrines. The poem describes a visit to his daughter Léopoldine Hugo 's grave four years after her death. [1]