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Floreal :: Floreal (n.) The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendemiare..

Toise :: Toise (a.) An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet..

Vivandiere :: Vivandiere (n.) In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler..

Grisette :: Grisette (n.) A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry..

Trinitarian :: Trinitarian (n.) One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans..

-ation :: -ation () A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization..

Amelcorn :: Amelcorn (n.) A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

Tincture :: Tincture (n.) A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners..

Carmagnole :: Carmagnole (n.) A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution..

Octroi :: Octroi (n.) A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.

M/tin :: M/tin (n.) A French mastiff.

Dey :: Dey (n.) The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830.

Jacquerie :: "Jacquerie (n.) The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants..

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

Gallicize :: Gallicize (v. t.) To conform to the French mode or idiom.

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

Eau De Vie :: Eau de vie () French name for brandy. Cf. Aqua vitae, under Aqua..

Ra- :: Ra- () A prefix, from the Latin re and ad combined, coming to us through the French and Italian. See Re-, and Ad-..

Blank :: Blank (n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence..

Talk :: Talk (v. t.) To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French..

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