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    The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the...
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    Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ("6th edition"), Paris, 1835 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ("7th edition"), Paris, 1879 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française...
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    more pretentious premises". The etymology is unclear. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates the word from the 19th century term, bistro, "innkeeper"...
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    medieval times the dish was referred to as an estouffet. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates the term cassoulet to no earlier than the 19th century...
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    French cake or quick bread. Its ingredients, according to Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (1694), were "rye flour, honey and spices". In Alsace, a...
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    fat, vegetables, herbs, spices, wine and brandy. Both the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) date the term back...
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  • honourable behaviour; privilege entails responsibility." The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française defines it thus: Whoever claims to be noble must conduct...
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    Baroque (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    " Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française (1762) Archived 28 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine Encyclopedie; Lettre sur la Musique Française under...
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    magazine has termed it the national dish of France. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates the term pot-au-feu to the 17th century. In 1600 the...
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    p. 2. Dictionnaire de l'académie françoise (4th ed.). Paris, France: Institut de France. 1762. p. 177. Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (6th ed...
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  • Retrieved 2 December 2021. "Madame - Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 9e édition". Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française. Retrieved 2 December 2021. "Greeting...
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    cheese; some versions include cheese and/or almonds. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates "pistou" from the 20th century, and defines it as a...
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    Oxford University Press. 2015-04-01. ISBN 9780199313617. "Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 9th edition online". Retrieved 2021-11-19. "Wiktionary"...
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    found in literary works of the period. It is defined by the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française as "an idea that keeps coming back to mind, an obsessive...
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    indicating both a method of cooking and a type of dish. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates the word to the 16th century, and says that it derives...
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    dresses these women originally wore. The 1694 edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française described a grisette as simply "a woman of lowly condition"...
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    but with no reference to eating outdoors. It reached the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française in 1840 with the same meaning. In English, "picnic" only...
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    codification in the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française eventually published by the Académie française, which found its start in the Hôtel de Rambouillet. Words...
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    traditionally served with pickled red cabbage. According to the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, the term "hochepot" dates from the 13th century and means...
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    Éclair) Éclair Archived 2014-01-04 at the Wayback Machine, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 8th edition "Éclair - Why is It Named After Lightning?"...
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    Haricot de mouton, without falling back on the vulgar phrase, Ragoût de mouton" [mutton stew]. According to the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française the name...
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    Etymology Dictionary Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 9th edition Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine West...
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    Guardian, 24 March 2021 Wells, p. 171 "meunier, meunière", Dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Retrieved 6 September 2023 David, p. 261 Soyer, p. 115 Escoffier...
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    Gastronomique and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Defined by the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française as a "Restaurant à bas prix, où l'on sert une...
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    Cambric (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    une pièce de cambrésine sur son corps tellement fine que l'on voit à travers. Académie française (1836). Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (in French)...
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    Retrieved May 9, 2021. "Dictionnaire Littré en ligne : dictionnaire de français Littré adapté du grand dictionnaire de la langue française d'Emile Littré". littre...
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    (or alternatively as pommes Chambéry). According to the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française the term derives from the old Picard word "boulenc" – "baker...
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    "Beowulf". Humanities.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 2012-03-28. Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (1932–35) Ammann, Keith (2019). The Monsters Know What They're...
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    fish. Matelote is the feminine of Matelot – sailor. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française dates the word from the 16th century, and defines it as "A...
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    the same nature), as defined in the eighth edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française). This French word is a derivation from the cardinal number...
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