Word origins

• fourth wallThe imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play.
• francizationSynonym of Frenchification (“the act or process of making or becoming more French, particularly in Quebecois contexts”).
• French RepublicOfficial name of France: a country in Western Europe.
• French tacoA press-grilled wrap sandwich originating from France, around Lyon: a type of burrito, where the filling is fully wrapped in the taco round flatbread, the wheat tortilla bread, without any open end, and filled with French fries, cheese sauce, a meat or alternative, and other sandwich fillings.
• frozen vacherinSynonym of vacherin glacé
• FructidorianA member or supporter of the group which took power in the coup d'état during the month of Fructidor 1797.
• furniture musicBackground music originally played by live performers.
• Gand IslandAn island of Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
• Gerlache IslandAn island of the Rosenthal Islands, Antarctica.
• Gerlache StraitA strait in Antarctica.
• Glace BayA harbour in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Glace Bay district, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Glorious ThirtyA thirty-year period of economic growth in France between 1945 and 1975, following the end of World War II.
• golden shoeA prize awarded each season to the player with the most points in league matches from the top division of a national league.
• go without sayingTo not need to be said or mentioned; to be obvious, apparent, clear, or already established.
• Grand FallsA waterfall system in Arizona, United States.
• gray eminenceSynonym of éminence grise.
• Great DaneA mastiff known for its great size, bred in Germany to hunt boar and large game.
• great replacementA white nationalist conspiracy theory claiming the gradual demographic and cultural replacement of white European populations, by non-European peoples, who are deliberately assisted by elites.
• green cancerChloroma.
• green fairyAbsinthe liquor.
• gutter rabbitA cat, or cat meat (served as a substitute for rabbit).
• Harbour GraceA town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• heavy legsAn alleged medical condition, described as an unpleasant sensation of pain and heaviness in the lower limbs.
• heir presumptiveSomeone who will become an heir (usually to a monarchy) only if no-one with a higher-ranking claim is born.
• High FensA boggy region in eastern Belgium and western Germany.
• high financeFinance focused on large-scale operations involving substantial amounts of capital.
• house of toleranceA licensed brothel.
• house societyA society where kinship and political relations are organized around membership in corporately-organized dwellings rather than around descent groups or lineages.
• Hungary waterOne of various early modern perfumes and elixirs made of rosemary, camomile or later lavender infused in various alcohols.
• if you pleasePlease.
• imaginary museumA person's essential or favorite works of art, regarded as a collection that could be brought together as a single ideal museum for that person.
• in commonShared with one or more others.
• incubation periodThe time elapsed between an exposure to a pathogenic organism, a chemical or radiation, and the appearance of signs and symptoms.
• in factResulting from the actions of parties.
• in peaceWith someone's favour or blessing.
• in pointAppropriate, relevant, pertinent.
• intercommunalityA grouping of communes or municipalities that share some services.
• in the final analysisAll things considered; when all is said and done; in conclusion, basically and fundamentally.
• irisedHaving irises of a specified colour or kind.
• it goes without sayingIt is understood without being said (but will be or was said anyway).
• I think, therefore I amI am able to think, therefore I exist; a proof of existence based on the fact that someone capable of any form of thought necessarily exists.
• it is to laughIt is absurd or laughable.
• ivory towerA sheltered, overly-academic existence or perspective, implying a disconnection or lack of awareness of reality or practical considerations.
• Javel watersodium hypochlorite, the earliest chemical bleach.
• Joan of ArcA brave, visionary, or martial woman.
• joy girlA female prostitute.
• kettle logicA rhetorical device involving the use of multiple arguments that are inconsistent with each other.
• king cakeA decorative cake distributed among friends or visitors on Epiphany. In many traditions it contains a pea, a trinket or some other small object which entitles its finder to be the "king" for one day.
• King's DaughtersSynonym of Filles du Roy.
• kitchen brigadeA kitchen staff that operates under the brigade system.
• knight of industryA footpad, thief, or sharper.
• Lake SuperiorA lake in Canada and the United States: the largest of the Great Lakes, the largest freshwater lake in the world by area, and the third largest freshwater lake in the world by volume.
• Latin AmericaThose parts of the Americas which speak Romance (Latin-derived) languages, namely Spanish, Portuguese, French, or creoles based on these.
• left bankThe bank to the left of a river when facing downstream.
• Lemaire ChannelA channel in Antarctica.
• letter of credenceFormal diplomatic letter that appoints a diplomat as ambassador to another sovereign state.
• let them eat cakeUsed to express a profound disconnect between the elite and the unprivileged or underprivileged, suggesting a callous indifference or detachment to their suffering.
• lick-boxA gourmand; a glutton.
• Liège IslandAn island of Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
• life-affirmingHaving a positive and uplifting effect.
• Little RockThe capital city of Arkansas, United States, and county seat of Pulaski County.
• logistic curveAn S-shaped curve that models the growth of many ecosystems.
• logistic functionA function, the result of the division of two exponential functions, that gives rise to the logistic curve.
• long scaleA system of numeric names in which every new term with -illion greater than million is 1,000,000 times the previous term (e.g. a billion is a million million).
• magic squareA palindromic square word arrangement, usually in the form of a magic amulet.
• majoritarilymostly; predominantly.
• make common causeTo cooperate, to enter into an alliance for a shared goal.
• man of lawA lawyer, a lawman.
• man of lettersA literary man; a scholar or author.
• maroonageThe fact or state of being a maroon.
• marriage of convenienceA marriage motivated by some reason other than love; for example, one conducted to obtain residence rights in a country, for financial gain, or for political purposes.
• master signifierA signifier, i.e. a linguistic sign, with no determinate content beyond itself, serving as a nodal point dominating and grounding the content of a chain of other signifiers.
• mensiversaryA day that marks an exact month (or specified number of months) since the occurrence of a significant event.
• more royalist than the kingVery strongly royalist.
• mother saucesThe set of 5 sauces that are the basis of traditional French cuisine.
• Mozart effectThe supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement in spatiotemporal reasoning or in mental performance generally.
• mute hIn the French language usage of the letter h at the start of a word which allows liaison with a preceding consonant.
• National FrontAny particular party of several far-right nationalist political parties
• National RallyA far-right nationalist political party of France, formerly named National Front.
• New CaledoniaAn archipelago and overseas territory of France in Oceania. Official name: Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies.
• New FranceA group of former French colonies in North America, existing from 1534 to 1763 in much of modern eastern Canada and the United States.
• New OrleansThe largest city in Louisiana, United States and the parish seat of Orleans Parish, which is coterminous with the city.
• new realismSynonym of nouveau réalisme
• new waveAny of several movements in music and film which are or were considered cutting edge.
• normal schoolA school for training teachers, especially in mainland Europe and North America.
• not worth the candleNot worth the cost or trouble.
• nun's fartA small choux pastry eaten during carnival season in France (especially Alsace) and Belgium.
• odour of sanctityA sweet smell, usually likened to that of flowers, said to be emitted by the bodies of saints during their life, or especially at or after death.
• of a certain ageMiddle-aged or older.
• old guardA conservative, reactionary faction that is more unwilling to accept new ideas than their peers are.
• open sesameopen up (especially referring to doors)
• OutremountSynonym of Outremont.
• Parliament HillA hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• pearl of the AntillesSaint-Domingue (present-day Haiti)
• place in the sunA favorable position, characterized by comfort, success, wealth or general well-being.
• Plains of AbrahamA plain in Quebec city, Quebec, Canada; a riverside plain atop the escarpment at the edge of the Saint-Lawrence River
• point of viewA position from which something is seen.
• prime ministerThe chief member of the cabinet and head of the government, especially in a parliamentary democracy; often the leader of the majority party.
• prince charmingA fictional heroic prince in various fairy-tales.
• prince consortThe husband of a queen or an empress, who is not a king or an emperor in his own right, or is accorded this title in a monarchy in which only male monarchs may bear the title "king."