French Loanwords

Can you name these French words that have been adopted into English since around the 17th century?

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Hint	Answer
A type of white sparkling wine	Champagne
A long, narrow type of bread	Baguette
Type of dancing popular in Russia. Nutcracker and Swan Lake are examples	Ballet
A small restaurant that sells light meals and drinks, especially coffee	Café
A place that provides accommodation and meals for travelers	Hotel
A dish that one cannot make without breaking eggs	Omelette
A large lake, often but not always artificial, used for water supply	Reservoir
Scattered pieces of ruble that is left after something is destroyed	Debris
Dark figure of someone or something where no details can be distinguished but only the shape and outline	Silhouette
To do with flying an aircraft	Aviation
A person, generally a woman, with dark brown hair	Brunette
A flat area of land at high altitude	Plateau

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A man to whom someone is betrothed	Fiancé
Popular sport in Canada using a stick with a catcher on the end	Lacrosse
A memento taken to remember a person or place	Souvenir
Type of round, flat hat, stereotypically worn by painters	Beret
Underground railway system, or a way of measuring city limits	Metro
The deflection of something off a surface (often used in the sense of a bullet rebounding off something)	Ricochet
A trainee in the armed forces or police force	Cadet
The deliberate destruction or obstruction to something, particularly a military or political advantage	Sabotage
An overused saying or idiom that often lacks its original meaning	Cliché
A front that makes a misleading outward appearance	Façade
An informal alliance, e.g. the Allies in WWI	Entente
A type of oven-baked, light, spongy usually a dessert	Souffle

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