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French words and phrases

Below is a list of translations of French words and phrases that are in common use in everyday English. What is the French word or phrase? Spelling the answers phonetically is ok.

1 good appetite; enjoy your meal bon appétit
2 white card carte blanche
3 driver chauffeur
4 good journey; have a good trip! bon voyage
5 stylish chic
6 a receptionist at a hotel or residence concierge
7 That’s life! or Such is life! c’est la vie!
8 opening the appetite aperitif
9 a bunch of flowers bouquet
10 a phrase that has become trite through overuse cliché
11 a brown-haired girl brunette
12 slaughterhouse abattoir
13 unimpressed with something because of overfamiliarity blasé
14 a person whose beliefs, attitudes, and practices are conventionally middle-class bourgeois
15 a small exclusive group of friends clique
16 cutting-edge or radically innovative avant-garde
17 a type of large road, usually running through a city boulevard
18 a long chair for reclining chaise longue
19 government overthrow coup (coup d’état)
20 on the menu à la carte

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