Statistics for French Loanwords

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A long, narrow type of bread	Baguette	99%
Type of dancing popular in Russia. Nutcracker and Swan Lake are examples	Ballet	90%
A small restaurant that sells light meals and drinks, especially coffee	Café	85%
A type of white sparkling wine	Champagne	85%
A person, generally a woman, with dark brown hair	Brunette	84%
Type of round, flat hat, stereotypically worn by painters	Beret	71%
A place that provides accommodation and meals for travelers	Hotel	68%
A dish that one cannot make without breaking eggs	Omelette	68%
Dark figure of someone or something where no details can be distinguished but only the shape and outline	Silhouette	66%
A man to whom someone is betrothed	Fiancé	64%
Underground railway system, or a way of measuring city limits	Metro	62%
A flat area of land at high altitude	Plateau	60%
The deflection of something off a surface (often used in the sense of a bullet rebounding off something)	Ricochet	59%
Popular sport in Canada using a stick with a catcher on the end	Lacrosse	58%
A memento taken to remember a person or place	Souvenir	56%
Scattered pieces of ruble that is left after something is destroyed	Debris	52%
A large lake, often but not always artificial, used for water supply	Reservoir	52%
An overused saying or idiom that often lacks its original meaning	Cliché	49%
A trainee in the armed forces or police force	Cadet	44%
A front that makes a misleading outward appearance	Façade	37%
A type of oven-baked, light, spongy usually a dessert	Souffle	33%
An informal alliance, e.g. the Allies in WWI	Entente	26%
The deliberate destruction or obstruction to something, particularly a military or political advantage	Sabotage	19%
To do with flying an aircraft	Aviation	16%