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41 chamberlain
n. m. 'Gamp', 'brolly', umbrella. (To the French, Neville Chamberlain gained eponymous fame through his ever-present umbrella.) -
42 chine
n. f.1. De chine (adj. exp.): 'Cadged', obtained through sponging or begging. Toutes les cibiches qu'il fame, il les a de chine: All the ciggies he smokes he's wangled off friends.2. Aller à la chine: To go 'knocking', to go buying antiques and second-hand goods from door to door. -
43 naphtaline
n. f.1. Ça sent la naphtaline! (joc. & iron.): It's a bit past it! — Don't you think it's a bit old?! Mettre en naphtaline: To shelve indefinitely. (Although mothballs are a thing of the past, they seem to have gained lexical fame.)2. (Drugs): 'Coke', cocaine. -
44 olibrius
n. m. Brash and breezy show-off, pompous extrovert. Cesse de faire l'olibrius! Stop arsing about! (It would appear that Olibrius, a governor of the Gauls around 300 A.D., gained eponymous fame for his erratic behaviour.) -
45 peton
n. m. (of child or woman): Small, delicate foot. (The word gained near- permanent overnight fame with the Maurice Chevalier song, 'Valentine', who, we are told, had 'un petit menton, deux petits petons' and two rather attractive, if small, 'tétons'.) -
46 rigollot
n. m. Mustard poultice. (In a country fond of home-remedies, even the old-fashioned mustard poultice lives on, and the easy-toadminister paper-based rigollot has brought its inventor-manufacturer eponymous fame.) -
47 wallace
n. f. (abbr. fontaine Wallace): Paris drinking fountain. (Sir Richard Wallace, the English philanthropist, 1818-90, gained everlasting eponymous fame by donating fifty small pushbutton water-dispensing fountains to the French capital.) -
48 Bordeaux
1) A major port city in southwest France, on the Gironde, and capital of the Aquitaine region.2) Wine, and wine growing region. With Burgundy and Champagne,the Bordeaux region is one of the three most famous wine-producing regionsin France. Historically, its fame is at least in part due to the fact that of these three big wine-growing areas, the Bordeaux vineyard is the only one with immediate access to the sea, an advantage that has enabled it to be France's major wine exporting region for many centuries.In 1152, when queen Eleanor of Aquitaine married the English king Henry II, the Aquitaine region became economically integrated into the Anglo-Norman world, the Bordeaux region becoming a major supplier of wine for England. This historic wine exporting tradition helped Bordeaux to develop far stronger commercial links in the ensuing centuries, firmly establishing Bordeaux wines, often referred to generically in English as "clarets", on the international market.The Bordeaux vineyard is centered round the port city of Bordeaux, along the estuary of the Gironde, and the rivers Garonne and Dordogne. It is a large vineyard, and the geo-specific appellation "Bordeaux" covers an area stretching some 100 km both north-south and east-west.While the appellation contrôlée covers wines of medium quality from all over this region, many if not most of the top quality clarets grown in the overall area benefit from more specific and distinctive area appellations, such as Médoc, Graves or Saint Emilion, and even more local appellations such as Pauillac, Graves and Saint-Estèphe.Unlike other wine-growing areas, the Bordeaux area operates classifications of many of its top wines, notably those from the Médoc and Saint Emilion vineyards. The best estates in these areas have the right to sell wines designated as grand cru. Below the grand crus come other high quality wines designated as cru bourgeois.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Bordeaux
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49 Halliday, Johnny
Iconic French rocker, who first came to fame in the early sixties as the French answer to Elvis. Though essentially a singer of rock 'n' roll, Johnny - real name Jean-Philippe Smet - evolved like a chameleon through changing fashions and modes in music, remaining one of France's most popular singers through four decades. Born in 1943, he officially announced his retirement in 2007, though was still doing the occasional concert in 2008.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Halliday, Johnny
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