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a crescent-shaped bread made of flaky pastry; in French also the word for crescent. Cul-de-sac cul-de-sac originally "bottom of sack" [18] and used in English in anatomy since 1738. Used for dead end (street) since 1800 in English, since 14th century in French. [19]
Photolithography and the first photographic image ever produced in 1822 by Nicéphore Niépce (Saône-et-Loire) [12] Daguerreotype by Nicéphore Niépce and Louis Daguerre; Hércules Florence coined photographie in 1834, French word at the origin of the English word photography. [13] A scene from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès.
It excludes combinations of words of French origin with words whose origin is a language other than French — e.g., ice cream, sunray, jellyfish, killjoy, lifeguard, and passageway— and English-made combinations of words of French origin — e.g., grapefruit (grape + fruit), layperson (lay + person), mailorder, magpie, marketplace, surrender ...
The most popular auxiliary language ever invented, including, possibly, up to two million speakers, the highest ever for a constructed language and the only one to date to have its own native speakers (approximately 1,000). [1] Mundolinco: 1888 J. Braakman: The first Esperantido. Bolak, "Blue Language" 1899 Léon Bollack
The following words are commonly used and included in French dictionaries. le pull: E. pullover, sweater, jersey. le shampooing, [1] the shampoo; le scoop, in the context of a news story or as a simile based on that context. While the word is in common use, the Académie française recommends a French synonym, "exclusivité". [2] le selfie.
The first continued in its adopted language in its original obsolete form centuries after it had changed its form in national French: bon viveur – the second word is not used in French as such, [1] while in English it often takes the place of a fashionable man, a sophisticate, a man used to elegant ways, a man-about-town, in fact a bon vivant ...
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