balayage n. a technique of painting highlights onto hair. Editorial Note: Often spelled balliage in English. Etymological Note: From the French balayage, meaning the act of “sweeping.” (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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How and why do words from one language find their way into another? Vietnamese, for instance, includes lots of words borrowed or adapted from French. Such linguistic mixing often happens when languages brush up against each other and speakers reach...
How and why do words from one language find their way into another? Vietnamese, for instance, includes many words borrowed or adapted from French, a vestige of colonialism. For example, the Vietnamese word for “train station,” ga, comes...
where in cleveland ohio is this technique called balliage done…do you have the name of a salon? have been looking for months…thanks for your help.
-ginny