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In French games, a pair royal composed of 2 cards in the hand and the card turned.

A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].

A kind of soft French cream cheese; -- so called from the district in France where it is made; --called also fromage de Brie.

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The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.

. The English name of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the French. Etymologically C is related to g, h, k, q, s (and other sibilant sounds). Examples of these relations are in L. acutus, E. acute, ague; E. acrid, eagar; L. cornu, E. horn; E. cat, kitten; E. coy, quiet; L. circare, OF. cer…

The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution.

In Louisiana, a person reputed to be Acadian French descent.

Especially: (a) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. (b) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. (c) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To assume the calotte, to become a priest.

The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches.

nate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

or articles; a formal agreement. With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet.

A small fishing boat used on the French coast.

A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superbundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.

burlesque; a parody. [Formerly written caricatura.] The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature. I. Taylor. A grotesque caricature of virtue. Macaulay.

A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution. They danced and yelled the carmagnole. Compton Reade.

Of or pertaining to the French philosopher René Descartes, or his philosophy. The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. Cartesian coördinates (Geom), distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing geometric quantities, invented by Descartes. -- Cartesian devil, a sma…