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au gratin "with gratings", anything that is grated onto a food dish. In English, specifically 'with cheese'. au jus lit. "with juice", referring to a food course served with sauce. Often redundantly formulated, as in 'Open-faced steak sandwich, served with au jus.' No longer used in French, except for the colloquial, être au jus (to be informed).
[1] /a/ is not diphthongized, but some speakers pronounce it [æ] if it is in a closed syllable or an unstressed open syllable, [2] as in French of France. The pronunciation in final open syllables is always phonemically /ɑ/, but it is phonetically [ɑ] or [ɔ] (Canada [kanadɑ] ⓘ or [kanadɔ] ⓘ), the latter being informal.
Dubonnet poster (1895) 1915 advertisement Faded Dubonnet advertisement, Lautrec Dubonnet advertisement, 1907 — Napoleon and Madame de Pompadour share a bottle. The caption, idiomatically rendered, runs something akin to this: (Napoleon Bonaparte to Mme. the Marchioness de Pompadour) ''My dear Marchioness, you must be perished with the cold.
These sacres are commonly given in a phonetic spelling to indicate the differences in pronunciation from the original word, several of which (notably, the deletion of final consonants and change of [ɛ] to [a] before /ʁ/) are typical of informal Quebec French. The nouns here can also be modified for use as verbs (see "Non-profane uses", below).
Rose quartz is a type of quartz which exhibits a pale pink to rose red hue. Rose Quartz may also refer to: Rose quartz (color), a gray shade of magenta; Rose Quartz (Fabergé egg) Rose Quartz (My Little Pony), one of the Crystal Ponies from the My Little Pony franchise "Rose Quartz", a song by Toro y Moi from their album Anything in Return ...
The author of the original words "Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira" was a former soldier by the name of Ladré who made a living as a street singer.The music is a popular contredanse air called "Le carillon national", and was composed by Jean-Antoine Bécourt [], a violinist (according to other sources: side drum player) of the théâtre Beaujolais.
There are four basic ways of creating plique-à-jour: 1. Filigree plique-à-jour ("Russian plique-à-jour"): This is a building up process whereby a planned design is interpreted using gold or silver wires which are worked over a metal form (e.g. a bowl). Wires are twisted or engraved, i.e. have additional micro patterns.
Jouri is an Arabic feminine given name said to mean damask rose. [1] It is written in Arabic as جوري. [2] It has been translated into other languages with multiple other spellings, including Gauri, Goree, Gȯry, Jawri, Jooree, Joory, Jori, Jorie, Jory, Jouree, Jourie, Joury, Jourry, Juri or Jury.