French Menu Words And Words For Travel Trips: post 55

 French menus need not be a mystery. You already know many French words. You can pick up a newspaper in a cafe or restaurant and spot a matinee of a ballet. Here are some handy words.


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B

ballet

bon - good, used in bonjour, good day, bonsoir, good evening, and bon-bon the sweet

boulevard - wide street

bouquet - bunch of flowers

brasserie - eatery

brassiere - bra, item of women's clothing also called soutien gorge which means lift neck which is a euphemism or polite word

C

cafe - both the coffee and the coffee shop

cafetiere - utensil for making coffee by pressing down a plunger

centre - centre

chateau - castle or grand house, mansion, often surrounded by vineyards, sometimes a hotel. The plural is chateaux.

chauffeur - driver, usually a paid employee in smart uniform of braided jacket and matching hat, dressed like a hotel porter at the door

chocolat - chocolate, as in pain au chocolat, breakfast bun with oozing soft chocolate centre, called chocolatine in other parts of France, in southwestern France (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie) and in Quebec. 

coiffeur - hair style

corps - body, corps de ballet

croissant - crescent shaped breakfast pastry, flaky, highly calorific

E

et - and , as in son et lumiere

fumer - to smoke, as in pas de fumer, no smoking, no fumes. De means of. ne - pas is no.

L

lait - milk, cafe au lait is coffee with milk, au is at 

lumiere, as in son et lumiere, light

M

madame - madam

matinee - afternoon performance, matin is morning

menu - le menu is the menu

mortgage - literally dead hand

moulin - mill or windmill as in Moulin Rouge, red windmill, a London landmark

N

naive

ne - no, don't 

noir - black, as in film noir which is a gloomy or sad film

Nom de plume - pen name, literally name of pen

P

President

R

regrette - regret, as in the Edith Piaf song, je ne regrette rien, I don't regret nothing (anything) 

renaissance - rebirth, art era, newspaper name

republique - republic (newspaper name and street name)

Restaurant

Reunion - meeting

rouge - red, as in the cosmetic, also as in moulin rouge, red windmill, adjective second after the noun

S

servis - service, as in servis compris means service included

son et lumiere - sound and light

T

train - train (written the same way, pronounced tran, just the same without the letter i)

V

Ville - town, centre ville means centre of the town

Useful Website On French Accents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_accent

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