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Cicero :: Cicero (n.) Pica type; -- so called by French printers.

Taille :: Taille (n.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola..

Closure :: Closure (v. t.) A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word cloture was originally applied to this proceeding.

Vendemiaire :: Vendemiaire (n.) The first month of the French republican calendar, dating from September 22, 1792..

Female Rhymes :: Female rhymes () double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line..

Arriere-ban :: Arriere-ban (n.) A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France..

Envoy :: Envoy (n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi..

Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance..

La :: La (n.) The tone A; -- so called among the French and Italians.

Prairial :: Prairial (n.) The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire..

Bourgeoisie :: Bourgeoisie (n.) The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade..

Althorn :: Althorn (n.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn..

Septillion :: Septillion (n.) According to the French method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-two ciphers annexed. See Numeration..

Labial :: Labial (a.) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as / (f/d), / (/ld), etc., and as eu and u in French, and o, u in German. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 11, 178..

Academician :: Academician (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts..

Sieur :: Sieur (n.) Sir; -- a title of respect used by the French.

-art :: -art () The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard..

Hermitage :: Hermitage (n.) A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drome..

Tricolor :: Tricolor (n.) The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution..

Gallomania :: Gallomania (n.) An excessive admiration of what is French.

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