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Chapter 5.

I
ingenue
J
jardiniere
L
laissez faire
litterateur
M
materiel
matinee
melange
melee
menage
mesalliance
metier
moire
N
naive
naivete
nee
O
opera bouffe
opera comique
P
papier mache
piece de resistance
pleiade
porte cochere
porte lumiere
portiere
pousse cafe
premiere
protege (masc, fem.)
puree
R
rale
recherche
regime
risque
role
rotisserie
roue
S
saute
seance
senor
smorgasbord
soiree
souffle
suede
T
table d'hote
tete-a-tete
tragedienne
V
vicuna
vis-a-vis
5.4.
Foreign words carry the diacritical marks as an essential part of their spelling.
à l'américaine
attaché
béton
blessé
calèche
cañada
cañon
chargé
chargé d'affaires
congé
crédit foncier
crédit mobilier
curé
déjà vu
détente
doña
entrepôt
exposé
longéron
mañana
maté
mère
nacré
outré
passé (masc, fem.)
pâté
père
piña
précis
raisonné
résumé
touché
Plural forms
5.5.
Nouns ending in o immediately preceded by a vowel add s to form the plural; nouns ending in o preceded by a consonant add es to form the plural, except as indicated in the following list.
albinos
armadillos
avocados
banjos
cantos
cascos
centos
didos
duodecimos
dynamos
escudos
falsettos
gauchos
ghettos
halos
indigos
infernos
juntos
kimonos
lassos
magnetos
mementos
merinos
mestizos
octavos
octodecimos
pianos
piccolos
pomelos
provisos
quartos
salvos
sextodecimos
sextos
siroccos
solos
tangelos
tobaccos
twos
tyros
virtuosos
zeros