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22 16 éléphantiasis: 'elephantiasis, a disease of the skin which makes it thick, hard, and fissured like an elephant's hide. 22 21 feu Cambyse: 'the late Cambyses' feu is frequently used, but only with humorous intent, in speaking of persons long since dead. 22 27 que diable! 'hang it all! 23 3
66 12 babouches: Turkish slippers, made of colored leather, without heels défroque: 'cast offs', properly, the possessions which a monk leaves behind at his death, then, by extension, what is abandoned disdainfully. 67 2 gros bleu: = bleu foncé, 'dark blue. In French the word may also mean the burn thus produced on the skin.
[Note 16: Hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. Allusion
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