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Biscuit

Posted on26 Aug 2016

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Cooked twice. From Old French (12th Century) bescuit. It literally means twice-cooked or twice-baked and derives from bis (two) + cuire (to...

Tennis

Posted on05 Aug 2016

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Here you go. Take it! When the French used to play jeu de paume (literally, “game of the palm”), the ancestor of...

Gourmet

Posted on29 Jul 2016

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Taster of wine. Dating from 1820 and from Old/Middle French groume, the term originally meant “wine-taster, wine merchant’s servant.” The term has...

Gadget

Posted on22 Jul 2016

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A small device, especially an ingenious or novel one. While it is 100% certain that “gadget” came from French in the 19th...

Hors d’œuvre

Posted on20 Jul 2016

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Outside of the main work/course. Literally, hors (outside) d’ (of) œuvre (work) means “apart from the work,” and thus, by extension, it was used to mean anything of secondary...

Solidarity

Posted on15 Jul 2016

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A bond of unity or agreement between individuals, united around a common goal or against a common enemy. To stand together. This...