vocab (French 3)
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- piece de resistance
- main dish
- denouement
- outcome
- rapprochement
- coming together
- laissez-faire
- noninterference
- croissant
- rich, flaky crescent-shaped roll
- vignette
- short verbal description
- demarche
- course of action
- premier
- prime minister
- a la carte
- according to the menu
- a la mode
- with ice cream
- coup detat or coup
- sudden violent overthrow of a government
- musicale
- social gathering with music as the featured entertainment
- table dhote
- complete meal of several courses offered in a hotel or restaurant at a fixed price
- filet or fillet
- slice of meat or fish without bones
- consomme
- broth
- regime
- system of government
- encore
- audience's demand for an additional performance
- lettre de cachet
- letter bearing a seal ordering the imprisonment without trial of a person the letter names
- bas-relief
- sculpture in which the figures project only slightly from the background
- repertoire
- collection
- soup du jour
- soup of the day
- bonbon
- piece of candy
- palette
- thin board on which an artist lays and mixed colors
- chef doeuvre
- masterpiece in art
- cuisine
- style of cooking food
- baton
- rod a conductor uses to direct a band
- detente
- relaxing, as of strained relations between nations
- demitasse
- small cup for, or of, strong black coffee
- entree
- main dish at dinner
- avant-garde
- experimentalists in any art
- hors doeuvres
- light foods served as appetizers before the regular courses of a meal
- genre
- category
- aperitif
- alcoholic drink taken before a meal as an appetizer
- entente
- agreement between governments