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risque was added by whichbe and has been listed 14 times with 0 comments
faux was added by pollyanna and has been listed 44 times with 7 comments
belle epoque was added by BrainyBabe and has been listed 2 times with 1 comment
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Looking up the etymologies, village is French and town is English, which is about what I expected here.
My intention was to gather words that are recognisably French, not those that have been fully digested and absorbed into colloquial English, as for instance "entrepreneur" has been. ("The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.")
One sign of the word's relatively recent welcome into English would be, as with gite, that Anglophones make an effort to use French pronunciation.
I assume you are mainly interested in recent borrowings, from the last two hundred years or so, and not those that go back to the Norman Conquest, which would be a hefty chunk of the vocabulary of Modern English.
Is it fair to call them "loan" words? Is the anglophone world going to have to give these words back to the French, with interest?
Oh, well, I don't remember where I got that from. Feel free to remove it.
"Village"? Really? I don't see it, myself.