How To Use Old french In A Sentence
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`This poor old French curé wasn't shot as an Uhlan in disguise but it was a close thing!
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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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
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From Old French, it went to Portuguese which gave it to Indian languages as peon: one who walks ahead of the master, a factotum.
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In the orthography of the Felibres the diagraph ue is used as we find it in Old French to represent this vowel.
Frederic Mistral
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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`This poor old French curé wasn't shot as an Uhlan in disguise but it was a close thing!
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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It is a word drawn from the old French fur trade for engagés who served their time and went free.
Champlain's Dream
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All these meanings have been associated with the notion of trance, a word etymologically rooted to the Middle English traunce, the Old French transe, and the Latin transpire, which refer to a passage or means of going over or across.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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Ages, or among the Iroquois and Algonquins, make men dispense with corslets, even when the shield was worn, as in Homer, slung round the neck by a _telamon_ (_guige_ in Old French), belt, or baldric.
Homer and His Age
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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sacrificium: sacer, sacred; see SACRED + facere, to make.]
A Few (?) Thoughts About Samhain and Sacrifice
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The name marmot comes from French marmotte, from Old French marmotan, marmontaine, from Old Franco-Provençal, from Low Latin mures montani "mountain mouse", from Latin mures monti, from Classical Latin mures alpini "Alps mouse".
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The word brassiere comes from the Old French braciere, which was a piece worn on the arm as protection.
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The word "travel," after all, comes from the Old French travaillier - to labor, or suffer - and drivers were happy to trade the longueurs of the road for something fast, safe and predictable.
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The word lamé comes from the Old French for a thin plate of overlapping metal, as used in armor.
Shiny Dressing, Day and Night
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It is a clip of abate, from the Old French abattre, “to beat down,” and now it means “to moderate, subside, reduce, ebb.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Reverse: Middle English revers, from Old French, from Latin reversus.
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Etymology: Middle French debaucher, from Old French desbauchier to scatter, disperse, from des – de – + bauch beam, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German balko beam — more at BALK
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A-drooping.] [Footnote 6: A carcanet is a necklace, diminutive from old French
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The old French word 'orfroiz,' (aurifrigia,) expresses essentially what we call 'frosted' work in gold; that which resembles small dew or crystals of hoar-frost; the 'frigia' coming from the Latin frigus.
Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
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In July a joint French and Mauritanian operation tried to rescue a 78-year-old French aid worker who had been kidnapped by AQIM.
France: No Military Rescue for Hostages in Niger
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The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
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Although some references explain its etymology as being from old French hutaudeau, meaning a pullet (a young hen), the derivation was in fact hétoudeau or hétourdeau which was a capon (a fattened cock fowl).
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The term nuptials itself is apparently derived from the Old French term nuptialis, part of a centuries-old French musical composition, Nuptialis hodie, which appropriately celebrates the Virgin Mary’s wedding day.
A French Perspective or Une Perspective Francaise
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French aphetic forms, but the first two are also from Old French forms of Matthew, and Masson is sometimes an alternative form of Mason.
The Romance of Names
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Etymology: French, from Middle French soumelier official charged with transportation of supplies, from Old French, pack animal driver, probably alteration of * sommerier, from somier pack animal, from Medieval Latin saugmarius, from Late Latin sagma packsaddle — more at sumpter
Sommelier on the Half Shell
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This old French table is a very valuable piece of furniture.
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spilth," combines the verb "spill" with a suffix ( "- age," this time borrowed from Old French) that can indicate an act or process.
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It was that land could be held, not under the seigneurial system of the old French regime, but under the Anglo-Saxon right of free and common soccage, where men were freeholders all.
Some Important Aspects of Canada's International Trade
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Sagin is a 31-year-old French chef living and working in Montreal.
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The Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) associates it with such onomatopoeic words as flit and flick, emphasizing a lack of seriousness; on the other hand, it has been attributed to the old French "Conter fleurette", which means "to (try to) seduce" by the dropping of flower leaves, that is, "to speak sweet nothings".
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Similarly, dishevelled comes from the Old French deschevelé and was not derived from a word shevelled.
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Guermantes, who, a great deal more ‘old French’ even than the Duke when he was not trying, did often deliberately seek to be, but in a manner the opposite of the lace-neckcloth, deliquescent style of her husband and in reality far more subtle, by a sort of almost peasant pronunciation which had a harsh and delicious flavour of the soil.
The Guermantes Way
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It in turn from Old French burel ` woolen cloth, 'and that from Latin burra
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4
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ETYMOLOGY: Possibly alteration of crutch and partly from Middle English croche, crook, crosier from Old French croche, hook, shepherd's crook, feminine of croc, hook; see crochet.
"What Britney's Crotch Did To My Stats."
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This old French table is a very valuable piece of furniture.
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Note 1: origin: from the old French word levée, act of raising, from lever to raise.
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'Sileni' of the old French apothecaries, as described by Rabelais, so decorated with wondrous figures, harpies, satyrs, horned geese and bridled hares, that men were incredulous, and doubted that precious ambergris, musk and gems were to be found within.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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The word jewellery is derived from the word jewel, which was anglicised from the Old French
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Such a change is interestingly reminiscent of a similar development in Old French where word-final /l/ became velarized to a 'dark l' which most English speakers are familiar with.
Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1
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This suggests that an older spelling may have been "tast" since the word comes into English from Old French "tast.
That "mortal tast"
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But speakers of Old French turned the same Latin verb into chasser, rebranded as chase in English.
The English Is Coming!
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The same old French waiters stood here and there about, each with impeccable apron and very peccable shoes, as is the wont of all waiters.
The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive
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Later these skins would be stuffed with foie gras and goose meat to make a galantine a cold French dish involving forcemeat pressed into a cylinder and poached.
The Foie Gras Wars
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Later these skins would be stuffed with foie gras and goose meat to make a galantine a cold French dish involving forcemeat pressed into a cylinder and poached.
The Foie Gras Wars
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Though the word originates from the Latin debere, it comes via the Old French dette.
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The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
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Any Aussie pie of your choice, covered in pea soup made by Madeleine the Crepe Lady (a little old French lady who makes crepes in the same Internet Cafe).
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At any rate, it was the habit of Henri Marais, who was excessively religious, to read his chapter of the Bible (which it is, or was, the custom of the Boers to spell out every morning, should their learning allow them to do so), not in the "taal" or patois Dutch, but in good old French.
Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain
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The most fertile Cuban musical form turned out to be the habanera, a lilting dance form that evolved out of the old French Contre-danse in the years following the Haitian revolution.
The Haitian-Born Rhythm Revolution
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(He distinctly saw an old French officer who, with gaitered legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.)
War and Peace
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`This poor old French curé wasn't shot as an Uhlan in disguise but it was a close thing!
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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What a coincidence since last week we just recieved a photo of my belle-mere playing petanque with old french men in Britanny (near Gurunhuel where she lives).
Petanque - French Word-A-Day
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These Verderers Courts have been held since Norman days and the old French terms "pannage,
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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In these islands we still apply the old French term "aver," _averium_, in
Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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In Old French oeiller was to fill a cask to its eye or bunghole - to the eyeballs, as you might say.
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Just begging to be used as a hero's name :- The "Wester" element looks recognisably Old English, but the "falcon" or "falca" bit looks to me like it could derive from Latin 'falco', which is where we get the modern English 'falcon' but via Middle English and Old French.
Aelle of Deira
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The style of winemaking is very much in the big and bold French Bordeaux type.
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He built a fort on Pigeon Island on which he perched his telescope; through which he squinted, discovering to unabated delight that his old French foe, Admiral De Grasse, was becalmed along with his naval fleet.
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The word originally comes from an old French word, “jambon.”
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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Dairy farmer Alain Duchemain told French TV his cows are having a hard time finding enough grass for grazing.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary says that "fool" in its usual sense is Middle English, from Old French, from Latin 'follis' meaning 'bellows or empty-headed person'.
July recipe: Gooseberry fool
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The Latin word clausus entered Old French as clos, meaning “confined”, and in the late fifteenth century the sense of the English adjective close shifted to “near” by way of "closing the gap between two things.
Address/speech, shut/shutter, close/shut
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Elsewhere (and prevalently) confusing or misleading information is given (e.g., [at brail] "Earlier spelled brale, it came from Old French, braile, belt."): Is the inference to be that the modern English word brail was borrowed from Old French in the fifteenth century?
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
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I drove east on the heroically built old French ski runs.
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The Vieux Carre, you must know, is the old French heart of New Orleans, and one gigantic fleshpot fine houses and walks, excellent eating-places and gardens, brilliantly lit by night, with music and gaiety and colour everywhere, and every second establishment a knocking-shop.
Isabelle
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The 6-stress line is called the alexandrine (probably from the name of an Old French poem in this metre).
The Principles of English Versification
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A bank of five bifold French doors stack to either side of the 15-foot-wide opening for a sweeping view west across the Rio Grande Valley.
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Besides these three sources measurably unprofessional and outside of music, or amateur, as we say now, there was the work of the professional musicians strictly so-called, who, from about 1100 in the old French school, commenced the development of what is now known as polyphony, which culminated in the hands of the Netherlanders, about 1580, Palestrina himself being one of the latest products of this school.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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I don't want a biography of your old French wine - bibber.
Flush of Gold
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Derived from the Old French word franc, meaning “free,” it later came to be associated with the most fundamental political freedom of all: to exercise your franchise meant to exercise your right to vote.
The Sack of Washington
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The old French prophet has foreseen England beating Italy in the world cup final!
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in fact, comes from the old French pompion, meaning "cooked by the sun," or ripe.
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However, there are also traces of Celtic, Old French, Middle and High German, Dutch and even Romany.
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The very word ‘soldier’ means ‘paid’, from the Latin solidus, originally a gold coin worth 25 denarii, and the Old French soulde.
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This first return towards the old French politeness was startling to some susceptible Republicans; but things were soon carried farther at the Tuileries by the introduction of 'Votre Altesse' on occasions of state ceremony, and Monseigneur in the family circle.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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French, literally, flea, from Old French pulce, from Latin pulic-, pulex — more at psylla
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[From French (en) carène, (on) the keel, from Old French carene, from Old Italian carena
Word of the Day
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A crepe-maker pours batter onto the circular hot plate at Cr pes du Nord, a four-month-old French-Scandanavian cr perie and wine bar in the Financial District.
Wall Street's Obsession du Nord
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He was always seen in a maroon-colored coat with gilt buttons, half-tight breeches of poult-de-soie with gold buckles, a white waistcoat without embroidery, and a tight cravat showing no shirt-collar, -- a last vestige of the old French costume which he did not renounce, perhaps, because it enabled him to show a neck like that of the sleekest abbe.
An Old Maid
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Note 1: levee, origin: from the old French word levée, act of raising, from lever to raise.
A Brief History of the Blues
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It's EYE-as, and the etymology turns out to be worth knowing as well: Middle English eias, from an eias, alteration of *a nias, an eyas, from Old French niais, from Latin ni:dus, nest; see sed- in Indo-European roots AHD.
Languagehat.com: EYAS.
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Etymology: French, from Middle French soumelier official charged with transportation of supplies, from Old French, pack animal driver, probably alteration of * sommerier, from somier pack animal, from Medieval Latin saugmarius, from Late Latin sagma packsaddle — more at sumpter
Sommelier on the Half Shell
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A ducat was a gold piece of the size of an old French louis, though less thick.
Catherine De Medici
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Camara told French radio he was not responsible for the killings, which were reportedly carried out by his presidential guard.
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`This poor old French curé wasn't shot as an Uhlan in disguise but it was a close thing!
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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Although some references explain its etymology as being from old French hutaudeau, meaning a pullet (a young hen), the derivation was in fact hétoudeau or hétourdeau which was a capon (a fattened cock fowl).
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The arpent is the old French measure that is approximately one acre in size.
The Glass Rainbow
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The meaning of pasque is "Easter" in old French and also, pasqueflower blooms around
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the Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation
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But after fair translation of its old French body -- "aver" -- into English, and only "horse" is found, and the word becomes "horsage," the change tends to confusion.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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The style of winemaking is very much in the big and bold French Bordeaux type.
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And the beginning of Flush of Gold is the old French wine-bibber, for he was the father of Marie Chauvet, and Marie Chauvet was the
Flush of Gold
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This time the soloist was a 19-year-old French girl named Lisa de la Salle, who has started recording for the aptly named "Naive" label.
Old Lady Matinee at the Symphony
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For ten stages, the 32-year-old French rider riveted his country by sitting atop the race, defending the maillot jaune with a grit that recalled gaunt-cheeked, vintage champions.
A Tour That Was Hard to Ignore
