In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
- He couched the painting in the nostalgic language of loss and remembrance that would become the true motor powering its celebrity and devoted one of only twelve of the book's full-page photogravures to illustrating it.
- A photogravure of the baptistery-chapel in 1897 shows the structure exactly as it stands today, but illustrations of the three large mosaics in the same publication differ significantly from the finished works.
- Mills may have paid a record price, but Goupil still owned the copyright, which enabled him to reproduce the composition again in 1877 as a photogravure.
- By the 1880s, and the last two years of Darwin's life, virtually all that the public saw in published photographs and photogravures were his beard, his hat, and his eyes.
- Traditionally, photogravures have been small prints (8 by 10 inches or smaller), with a quality level higher than that of offset reproduction but lower than that of fine art prints.
English has borrowed many of the following foreign expressions of parting, so you’ve probably encountered some of these ways to say goodbye in other languages.
Many words formed by the addition of the suffix –ster are now obsolete - which ones are due a resurgence?
As their breed names often attest, dogs are a truly international bunch. Let’s take a look at 12 different dog breed names and their backstories.