The model of Gil Blas, in the Spanish romance entitled Relaciones de la Vida del Escudero Marcos de Obregon. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
The March meetings held by Clovis and his immediate followers, sometimes as mere pageants for the amusement of the freedmen who came to offer homage to their lord, and pay their annual…
A perfumed spirit, prepared at Cologne. The most famous maker was Jean Maria Farina. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Eau de VieEating Together A B C D E…
A letter written to extort money. (See Vidocq: Les Voleurs, i. 240-253.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LeucadiaLettre de Cachet A B C D E F G H I…
(Encyclopedia) De-shimaDe-shimadāˈ-shĭmä [key] or De-jimaDe-shimadāˈ-jĭmä [key], artificial island, c.40 acres (16 hectares), Nagasaki prefecture, W Kyushu, Japan, in Nagasaki harbor. It has many…
(Encyclopedia) Éboli, Ana de Mendoza de la Cerda, princesa deÉboli, Ana de Mendoza de la Cerda, princesa deäˈnä ᵺā māndōˈthä ᵺā lä thārˈdä prēnthāˈsä ᵺā āˈbōlē [key], 1540–92, Spanish noblewoman.…
(Encyclopedia) Sablé, Madeleine de Souvré, marquise deSablé, Madeleine de Souvré, marquise demädəlĕnˈ də s&oomacr;vrāˈ, märkēzˈ də säblāˈ [key], 1599–1678, French woman of letters. Her salon was…
Brandy. A French translation of the Latin aqua vitæ (water of life). This is a curious perversion of the Spanish acqua di vitæ (water or juice of the vine), rendered by the monks into aqua…
(French). An arbitrary warrant of imprisonment; a letter folded and sealed with the king's cachet or little seal. These were secret instructions to the person addressed to proceed against…
The act of a suicide when he commits self-murder. Murder is felony, and a man who murders himself commits this felony —felo de se. “A felo-de-se, therefore, is he that deliberately puts an…
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