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Saturday, January 24, 2015

French words of the day - banquette to triage and venue

banquette
beau
belle
bureau
café
cliché
critique
exposé
femme fatale
foie gras
jejune
malaise
naive
niche
omelette
palette
panache
pastiche
portmanteau
sautée
triage - dividing the injured into three groups, the walking wounded, the wounded, and those needing most urgent attention, first done in the USA in wartime, copied by the Brits at the railway accident at Harrow and Wealdstone station
unique - the French for only child is fille unique
venue

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