French Words 7-9

Question 1

Denouement

Answer 1

Solution of the plot in a play/story

Outcome

End

Question 2

Encore

Answer 2

Repetition of a performance in response to the demand from an audience

Question 3

Genre

Answer 3

Kind/ sort/ category

Question 4

Repertoire

Answer 4

List of plays/operas/roles that a company or performer is prepared to perform

Question 5

Vignette

Answer 5

Short verbal description/ small/graceful literary sketch

Ex. Her book offers some great vignettes of life in Dublin

Question 6

A la carts

Answer 6

According to the bill of fare with a stated price for each dish

Question 7

Bonbon

Answer 7

A piece of candy

Question 8

Cuisine

Answer 8

Style of cooking or preparing food

They specialize in French cuisine

Question 9

Entrée

Answer 9

Main dish at lunch or dinner

Question 10

Filet

Answer 10

Slice of meat or fish without bones or fat

Question 11

Hors d’oeuvres

Answer 11

It’s plural

Light food served as an appetizer before the regular courses of a meal

Question 12

Piéce de résistance

Answer 12

Main dish

Question 13

Bouffant

Answer 13

Puffed out/ full

Adjective

Halls would need to be widened if all girls skirts were bouffant

Question 14

Boutique

Answer 14

Small shop specializing in fashionable clothing

Question 15

Coiffure

Answer 15

Style of arranging the hair, headdress

Ex. Sally’s new coiffure was made by her hair stylist

Question 16

Corsage

Answer 16

Small bouquet worn by a women

Question 17

Flamboyant

Answer 17

Flamelike
Very ornate
Showy

Ex. To add more color jack wore a flamboyant scarf

Question 18

Toupee

Answer 18

Wig

Question 19

Vogue

Answer 19

Fashion/ accepted style

Ex. Today’s fashion may be out of vogue tmrw

Question 20

Avante-garde

Answer 20

Experimentalists or innovators in any part

Ex. His innovations in poetry place made him the avant garden of Ninteenth century writers