Sentence examples for french refers from inspiring English sources

What exactly is the quenelle?The word in French refers originally to a long oval-shaped fish or meat dumpling from the Lyon region.

Here, Jewish is an adjective for the Jewish nationality just as "French" refers to the culture of the French people, or "Estonian" to the culture of Estonians.

If it had, "Jewish" might have signified today a member of a national community — in the manner, say, that "French" refers to a national of France or "Polish" that of Poland.

Sous vide, which means "under vacuum" in French, refers to a technique where foods are vacuum-sealed to carefully calibrated degrees of pressure so they can be suffused with flavors in a marinade or submerged in temperature-controlled water baths.

This lipogrammatic tour de force is particularly poignant because the missing e (pronounced "eux" – "them" – in French) refers to all those (including the author's parents) who went missing during the second world war.

Originally, her venture was called Kids' Atelier, which is now the name of one class and, in French, refers to a workshop or studio where artists are involved in a rigorous development of their skills.

The French referred to this area as Cochinchina.

The French referred to them as famille-rose.

But there is the small matter of the French referring to a goldfish as a "redfish".

Indeed, the French refer to l'enfer (the hell) of Matignon, the Paris mansion that is the prime minister's office.

So far, no one has been hurt in the "séquestrations," as the French refer to the hostage-taking.