How To Use Old French In A Sentence
- `This poor old French curé wasn't shot as an Uhlan in disguise but it was a close thing! DARE CALL IT TREASON
- It is based on the old French element of the fur trade -- that is, a commonalty who are the descendants of French or Canadian boatmen, and clerks and interpreters who have invariably married Indian women. Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
- From Old French, it went to Portuguese which gave it to Indian languages as peon: one who walks ahead of the master, a factotum.
- In the orthography of the Felibres the diagraph ue is used as we find it in Old French to represent this vowel. Frederic Mistral
- Circumstance comes from Old French circum -, circonstance, which comes from Latin circumstantia, which meant “standing around, surrounding condition” (all this is from the OED, not me). Annals of Strange Prescriptions: Under the circumstances « Motivated Grammar
- The old French brach, which is nothing more than the old type, preserved especially in the south, where it is called the Charles the Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891
- Oh, and the word javelin comes from Middle English and it derives from Old French javeline a diminutive of javelot which meant spear. China, Bound
- The plan was simple - find a bunch of old French fellas playing boules, interrupt with garbled explanation and launch one of their boule from my shoulder before they know what's hit them.
- `This poor old French curé wasn't shot as an Uhlan in disguise but it was a close thing! DARE CALL IT TREASON
- It is a word drawn from the old French fur trade for engagés who served their time and went free. Champlain's Dream
