Vocabulary

cigar bar

simple on-off switch; one-way switch (UK); two-way switch (US)

intermediate switch (UK); crossover switch (UK); four-way switch (US)

to detain; to take into custody

generation after generation; (for) generations to come

web scraping; web harvesting

punsch; traditional Swedish arrack liqueur

Caesar salad

especially; exceptionally; remarkably; conspicuously

gypsum board; drywall; plasterboard

One China (policy)

normal force

that is not supposed to ...; that ought not to ...; that should never ...; that cannot possibly ...

sex work

laptop; laptop computer

I can't go on like this

leper colony; leprosarium

beautiful woman; (a) beauty

ascender (climbing); ascendeur; jumar

ravigote sauce; sauce ravigote

brutalism (architecture)

incredible episode (e.g. of a TV show)

frying pan for making rolled eggs

extremely popular long-running TV show

influenza; flu

Chinese pond mussel (Sinanodonta woodiana)

right?; don't you think?; don't you agree?

Zip drive

frangipane

haute cuisine; grande cuisine; gourmet French cuisine

vaporwave (music genre)

nouvelle cuisine

amuse-bouche; amuse-gueule

country-style bread

rillettes

Mornay sauce

moules-frites

baked Alaska

Béarnaise sauce

companding