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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.
This list excludes words that come from French, but were introduced into the English language via a language other than French, which include commodore, domineer, filibuster, ketone, loggia, lotto, mariachi, monsignor, oboe, paella, panzer, picayune, ranch, vendue, and veneer. English words of French origin can also be distinguished from French ...
Le lifting. A facelift, plastic surgery. La success story. An example of an English phrase made up of words of French origin that has been reborrowed into French. Le dealer. A dealer of illegal drugs. Le cheese. In the context of "le Royale Cheese" in McDonald's. If you order "un cheese", you get a cheeseburger.
La mer, qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clair. Laissez les bons temps rouler. Lanterne rouge. Lapalissade. Le bruit et l'odeur. Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Lieu-dit. Ligne claire. Longest word in French.
abbreviation, (Fr. abréviation) abdication. abet (Old Fr. abeter) abeyance (Anglo Fr. abeiance, from Old Fr. abeance) abhor (Fr. abhorrer) ability (Old Fr. ableté, compare modern Fr. habileté with restoration of initial h of Latin habilitas) abject. abjection. abjuration.
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A double entendre[note 1] (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that would be too socially unacceptable, or offensive to state directly. [2][3] A double entendre may exploit puns or word ...
List of English words of Indonesian origin, including from Javanese, Malay (Sumatran) Sundanese, Papuan (West Papua), Balinese, Dayak and other local languages in Indonesia. List of English words of Irish origin. List of Irish words used in the English language. List of English words of Italian origin.