- A
kerchief (from the Old
French couvre-chef, "cover head"), also
known as a
bandana or bandanna, is a
triangular or
square piece of
cloth tied
around the...
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Modern Age The word "curfew" /ˈkɜːr.fjuː/
comes from the Old
French phrase "
couvre-feu",
which means "cover fire". It was
later adopted into
Middle English...
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sailors remember this by
using the
mnemonic "Le
Minou rougit quand il
couvre les Fillettes" ("the
Minou blushes when he
covers the girls").
Built between...
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shooes To th' Holy Rood, or
liberally allowes, But a new rope to ring the
couvre-few bell, But he
desires that his
great deed may dwell, Or
graven in the...
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block and a rock-hewn air-raid
shelter within Couvre Porte Counterguard. The
museum is
housed within the
Couvre Porte, a 17th-century
counterguard forming...
- century.
Minor alterations were also made by the
British in the 19th century.
Couvre Porte Counterguard – a
pentagonal counterguard built to
protect St. John...
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Marcel Proust recalls having a
marceline quilt in his room "...la jonchée de
couvre-pieds en marceline...". Look up
marceline in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...
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February 2014. "Banlieues en crise :
baisse sensible des violences,
premiers couvre-feux". Le Monde. 9
November 2005.
Archived from the
original on 16 June...
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handkerchief derives from the word
kerchief which came from a
French word:
couvre-chef,
which means "hat" or "headgear", so a
handkerchief is a
similar cloth...
- Cœuvres-et-Valsery (French pronunciation: [kœvʁ e valsəʁi]) is a
commune in the
Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in
northern France. The town is in...
