(2 syl.). Lord and governor of Athens, called by Chaucer Duke Theseus. He married Hippolita, and as he returned home with his bride, and Emily her sister, was accosted by a crowd of female…
is the Latin troct-a, from the Greek troktes, the greedy fish (trogo, to eat). The trout is very voracious, and will devour any kind of animal food. “[Roland] was ... engaged in a keen and…
Floor ExerciseYear Points1932 Istvan Pelle, HUN 9.601936 Georges Miez, SWI 18.6661948 Ferenc Pataki, HUN 19.351952 William Thoresson, SWE 19.251956 Valentin Muratov, USSR 19.201960 Nobuyuki…
Godchild of Charlemagne; her parents were Mita and Miton, Count and Countess of Rennes. She went in search of Fear fortress, and found that it only existed in the minds of the fearful,…
(3 syl.). The grand song of the French Revolution. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, an artillery officer in garrison at Strasbourg, composed both the words and the $$$ for Dietrich mayor of…
or Marsilius. A Saracen king who plotted the attack upon Roland, under “the tree on which Judas hanged himself.” With a force of 600,000 men, divided into three armies, he attacked the…
Ancestors, predecessors —i.e. those born before the present generation. (Anglo-Saxon, fór-béran.) “My name is Græme, so please you,—Roland Græme, whose forbears were designated of…
A character in the Battle of Alcazar (1594) by George Peele. It is referred to by Pistol in 2 Henry IV., act ii. 4; and Sir W. Scott uses the word over and over again as the synonym of…
as Childe Harold, Childe of Ellechilde Waters, Childe Roland, Childe Tristram, Childe Arthur, etc. In all these cases the word “Childe” is a title of honour, like the infante and infanta…
(French). An intriguant, a confidant, a go-between, a pander. Originally a dariole meant a little sweetmeat or cake rayed with little bands of paste. “Dariolette, employé comme un des…
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