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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

French words of the day: Bon appetit; grandeur



Bon appetit - literally good appetite / enjoy your meal
pronounced app-pay-tea (there should be an acute or rising accent as you see on the post label but when I type in the accent by holding the keyboard e down and selecting from the choices of accents over the e with the mouse the accent then vanishes)
Grandeur - grand design / large and important looking
Laissez-faire - let (people) do (what they like)/ anything goes / unregulated economy / unfettered 
Milieu - area or field
piece de resistance - (should have an accent on the first word, pronounced 'pea ess') greatest piece of work e.g. "all the food was wonderful but the piece de resistance was the wedding cake)
piste - part of designated ski area (Off-piste - not marked area - probably not safe and you are not insured on many policies)

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