" I learned that a pommeau à douche is a showerhead. The tuyau à douche is the shower hose that’s attached with a crochet (holder) to the mur en faïence (a tile wall, not to be confused with a mûre en faïence, which would be a ceramic blackberry) using les vis cruciformes (screws). It’s a lot to remember when leafing through catalogs of French plumbing fixtures, but harder when you’re in a hardware store and the perplexed salesperson doesn’t understand why you’d want to attach a showerhead to a ceramic berry. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home