Category:English terms calqued from French

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. more royalist than the king
  2. Joan of Arc
  3. prime minister
  4. mother sauces
  5. cultural arbitrary
  6. zinc white
  7. silver white
  8. Harp Island
  9. young Turk
  10. Spiritism
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. belly dance
  2. man of letters
  3. upcountry
  4. white marriage
  5. cloak-and-dagger
  6. open sesame
  7. virtual reality
  8. near-death experience
  9. toilet water
  10. flea market

English terms that were calqued from French, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of French terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|fr|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the source-language term that the term in question was borrowed from.


Pages in category "English terms calqued from French"

The following 197 pages are in this category, out of 197 total.