À propos de quelques glissements de sens rocambolesques

The paper deals with the semantic content of three German loan words rocambole, schlass and schnorchel. These three lexical units belong to a set of lexical Germanisms, which have been subjected to a frequency analysis in the French modern written language and then to research as to what extent they are known and used by today´s native speakers. These lexical units evince small shifts of meaning compared with their definitions which appear traditionally in the French monolingual dictionaries.