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93 6 dromadaire: the word is here used correctly according to the Academy's dictionary, which makes dromadaire a name of the one humped species of camel. According to more exact usage a dromedary is a high bred camel for special speed, usually of the one humped species but not necessarily so, in this sense Tartarin's beast can hardly claim the name. 93 7 que devenir: lit. 'what to become', transl.
Le directeur souriait et passait sa main sur son crâne chauve, tout en répondant: Vous nous flattez, parole d'honneur! Non, je vous jure, reprenait l'autre; jamais hospice ne m'a paru aussi bien tenu, aussi habilement organisé. Je suis ravi, upon my word, tout
2 24 vous donner la chair de poule: 'make your flesh creep' With the French chair de poule 'hen flesh' cf. Engl. "goose flesh". 236 yataganerie. the yatagan, 'yataghan, is the saber of the Turks and the Arabs, from this word Daudet coined yataganerie on the analogy of épicerie, papeterie, etc, transl. 'paraphernalia of war'. 228 bonhomme a noun used adjectively, transl. 'kindly'.
Will you kindly interpret a French gentleman who does not speak a word of English? Certainly, Sir, with pleasure.
ELLE FIT DIRE QU'ON NE LA VOYOIT POINT, "she sent word that she would not receive." 3. SA QUALIT
La phrase-clef de cette cryptographie est: «A word to the wise is sufficient .»
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.
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