Old French

Before getting into English the word came from Old French and in moving to English it seems to taken a step down in the world.

The word cement seems to have come into Middle English from Old French and ultimately from Latin.

Through the front door came an old French flower woman.

Old French picked this up and the word appeared as a Middle English word fol whose earliest written record appears in 1225.

The story was inspired by a chance meeting with an old French Duke.

Simpson told the Gloucestershire News, "When I opened it, to my amazement it was a note written in pencil, in old French. "

pedestal which back in Old French had arisen from a juxtaposition of the French words for "foot of the support"

The word fairy is drawn from fay (Old French fee), which itself comes from the Latin Fata, the goddess of fate.

In July, the group said it executed a 78-year-old French aid worker it had taken hostage three months before.

So it comes as no surprise that the word funeral came to English from Old French.

In the corner of the spacious and luxurious sitting room stands a charming small round old French padauk table.

It still makes me happy to see the liquor bottles beside the old French mirror.

85-year-old French actress Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest ever to be nominated in the best actress category.

In fact, his commonly attributed height, five feet and two inches, only holds true under an old French system of measurement.

The crackdown comes after the death of a 17-year-old French girl who ate the psychedelic fungi and jumped from a building.

Sure enough the Oxford English Dictionary traces mess back to Anglo-Norman and Old French before that.

Ashu could discern resemblances between many of my poems and old French poems he knew.

Interestingly enough, the modern word 'standard' comes from the Old French 'estendart' (a military or ceremonial flag).

"Carol" derives from an Old-French word for circle-dance.

because English came from two main sources - old French, and old Anglo-Saxon, there is a very large vocabulary of words.

The pillows on the left of the couch are old french grain bags stuffed with feathers.

I discovered a fragrance of Guerlain, a very old French perfume brand, Aqua Allegoria-Herba Fresca.

Hook: A 12-year-old French orphan who lives in a Depression-era Paris train station befriends a robot.

Comfortable is made up of three parts each of which comes to us via Old French and ultimately Latin.

the latent meanings in the confusion of tenses in old French verbs.

Second, Old French became as important an influence as Danish and Anglo-Saxon to the development of English as it is today.

it also had wide streets with trees in rows and old French houses.

There is little modern in Vientiane. Old French colonial houses are being restored as offices and as restaurants and hotels.

A 28 year old French model recently died from too much weight loss.

Much more troubling is a story involving Tristane Banon, a 31-year-old French writer.

The first beneficiary is Luc Montagnier, a 78-year-old French scientist who won a Nobel in 2008 for his discovery of HIV.

We get simple from Old French.

That is a valuable small round old French oak writing table .

a. There are some big round old French eating tables in the hall.

tatiana russia is . stuck between dried - up old french reasoning and the new german thought which explains everything

from Old French [from feminine past participle of] valoir [to be strong, be worth]

partly from diminutive of Old North French cabine [gambling-room] perhaps alteration of Old French cabane [small house] * see cabin

Choral after an Old French Carol

from Old French romans [romance, work written in French]

and from Middle Dutch flute Middle Dutch from Old French

partial translation of Old French surnom