French words in British English usually come from either the Normans or the Renaissance. Just goes to show how long we've been mastering our art.

This one comes from WWI. Until 1914 the English just called them lines. It wasn’t until they observed French troops lining up in orderly “tails” - queues - that the name caught on There were other WWI changes too e.g. - “barrage” stopped being pronounced like “porridge”, and receipts became recipes

Oh yeah, and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Battenberg became Windsor and Mountbatten. 😊