My view of what these french words mean when used in English
annexe - additional building, attached to the main building, often a long walk in the rain over a potholed scary car park or spooky path to dinner in the hotel, definitely not what you booked and not good enough. Insist on being in the main building.
bonhommie - goodwill
clique - group of friends, rather like a closed shop, who repulse or ignore outsiders
coterie - group of people, cosy little group of close friends, clique
cris de coeur - cry from the heart / plaintive cry / heartfelt cry
menagerie - collection of animals, bizarre, unlikely mini-zoo, a mix of rescue dogs, rescue zebras, pot bellied pigs, and so on, all given a home in a ramshackle building, which is so fascinating that it take two or three hours before horror or fear and satiety set in. Too many animals to be called pets. Not properly caged and safe like a real municipal zoo.
Like my friends in an upper storey flat in Singapore, who kept lizards or baby comedy dragons? in the bath, plus frogs on the floor, hiding behind the toilet paper, and unidentifiable creatures, resembling beetles, struggling to climb out of the basin of the room which unnerved visitors sent there to use the toilet; or the other friends on a farm in Belgium, reputedly with a dilapidated main house filled with animals, fields containing numerous horses, sheep, goats, and other unwanted or sick animals the owners were given, or loaned, or bought, constantly changing, a barn full of cats, at least one missing an ear, either because it was rescued or due to overcrowding with other sweet-natured cats, mongrels and rodents, and not a good idea to walk back to your car alone at night.
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Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker.
annexe - additional building, attached to the main building, often a long walk in the rain over a potholed scary car park or spooky path to dinner in the hotel, definitely not what you booked and not good enough. Insist on being in the main building.
bonhommie - goodwill
clique - group of friends, rather like a closed shop, who repulse or ignore outsiders
coterie - group of people, cosy little group of close friends, clique
cris de coeur - cry from the heart / plaintive cry / heartfelt cry
menagerie - collection of animals, bizarre, unlikely mini-zoo, a mix of rescue dogs, rescue zebras, pot bellied pigs, and so on, all given a home in a ramshackle building, which is so fascinating that it take two or three hours before horror or fear and satiety set in. Too many animals to be called pets. Not properly caged and safe like a real municipal zoo.
Like my friends in an upper storey flat in Singapore, who kept lizards or baby comedy dragons? in the bath, plus frogs on the floor, hiding behind the toilet paper, and unidentifiable creatures, resembling beetles, struggling to climb out of the basin of the room which unnerved visitors sent there to use the toilet; or the other friends on a farm in Belgium, reputedly with a dilapidated main house filled with animals, fields containing numerous horses, sheep, goats, and other unwanted or sick animals the owners were given, or loaned, or bought, constantly changing, a barn full of cats, at least one missing an ear, either because it was rescued or due to overcrowding with other sweet-natured cats, mongrels and rodents, and not a good idea to walk back to your car alone at night.
dictionary.com
google translate
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker.
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