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Cancún. Cancún (/ kænˈkuːn / kan-KOON, US also / kɑːnˈkuːn / kahn-KOON, [4] Spanish: [kaŋˈkun] ⓘ), often spelled Cancun in English (without the accent), is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located in southeast Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is a significant tourist ...
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.
Chanson. A chanson (UK: / ˈʃɒ̃sɒ̃ /, [1] US: / ʃɑːnˈsɔːn /; [2] French: chanson française [ʃɑ̃sɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ⓘ, lit. 'French song ') is generally any lyric -driven French song. The term is most commonly used in English to refer either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music or to a ...
A chant (from French chanter, [1] from Latin cantare, "to sing") [2] is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes to highly complex musical structures, often including a great deal of repetition of ...
The " Huron Carol " (or " Twas in the Moon of Wintertime ") is a Canadian Christmas hymn (Canada's oldest Christmas song), written probably in 1642 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. [1] Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song's original Huron title ...
The song was composed in 1928 by René Jam Afame who also wrote the lyrics along with Samuel Minkio Bamba and Moïse Nyatte Nko'o, all while they were students at the École Normale of Foulassi . [1] It was used on an unofficial basis in French Cameroon beginning in 1948 before independence and officially adopted as the anthem of the territory ...
J'ai vu le loup ("I saw the wolf") is a French folk song, and also a nursery rhyme. [1] Due to it having been transmitted orally, it is difficult to pinpoint its exact origin, though the earliest versions date back to the High Middle Ages. [2] Many versions exist in the French-speaking world, both in langue d'oc and langue d'oïl.
Chorus: Il est né le divin enfant, Jouez hautbois, résonnez musettes ! Il est né le divin enfant, Chantons tous son avènement ! Depuis plus de quatre mille ans, Nous le promettaient les prophètes Depuis plus de quatre mille ans, Nous attendions cet heureux temps. Chorus Ah ! Qu'il est beau, qu'il est charmant ! Ah ! que ses grâces sont ...