Jeu in a sentence

Liver 2009, pp. 138 In contemporary spoken language, adjective forms are often not distinguished from adverbs, as in Sursilvan Jeu mon direct 'I am going directly', rather than Jeu mon directamein.

Jeu de paume - which translates to game of the palm - eventually evolved into lawn tennis.

Take a nice stroll south through the city center (or hop on a bus) to Marollen (or Marolles), one of the most entrancing neighborhoods in Brussels, home to the flea market on Jeu de Balle as well as antique shops and thrift stores.

Today sees a varied programme of festivities, from the Place du Jeu de Balle to Brussels Park, taking in the various districts of Brussels for National Day.

At the roots of the ethics is desire: analysis' only promise is austere, it is the entrance-into-the-I (in French a play on words between l'entrée en je and l'entrée en jeu).

By no later than the early 15th century, the game jeu de maille main (itself ancestral to pall-mall and perhaps to indoor billiards ) was popular in France, including in the courts of Henry II in the 16th century and Louis XIV of the 17th.

Dobson & Taylor, p. 42. In the Jeu de Robin and Marion, Robin and his companions have to rescue Marion from the clutches of a "lustful knight".

Furthermore, he emphasized the importance of "playing" (in his terms, jeu) in the creation of music.

Hermance Edan had given no name to her game but a French manufacturer named "Au Jeu Retrouvé" was selling the game as L'Attaque as early as 1910.

However, the troupe had acquired large debts, mostly for the rent of the theatre (a court for jeu de paume ), for which they owed 2000 livres.

In 1939, Renoir directed La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game).

In that latter respect, it is similar to the French boules game jeu provençal main also known as boule lyonnaise main.

Jeu zéro (zero game) Zero game, also known as zero spiel (spiel is German for game or play), is the name for the numbers closest to zero.

Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.

The aesthetic also emphasised the importance of play (jeu) in the practice of sound based composition.

The modern version of the game was created in 1907 at the town of La Ciotat by a former champion of jeu provençal named Jules Hugues, who was unable to play because of his rheumatism.

The naming of Marian may have come from the French pastoral play of c. 1280, the Jeu de Robin et Marion This play is distinct from the English legends.

The Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath ( le serment du Jeu de paume main, 20 June 1789), swearing not to separate until a constitution had been established.