louche
(en)
disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way
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listening to a louche character with a thick moustache
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listening to a louche character with a thick moustache
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etiolated
(en)
(of a plant) pale and drawn out due to a lack of light; having lost vigour or substance; feeble
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a multitude of once profound, now etiolated dramas
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a multitude of once profound, now etiolated dramas
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harelipped
(en)
(pejorative, often metaphorical) having a cleft lip
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his harelipped son
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his harelipped son
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feuilleton
(fr)
kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the latest fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles
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suitable for feuilleton format
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suitable for feuilleton format
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confrère
(en)
(an English word, derived from Middle French) a fellow member of a profession
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a confrère of the princess whose nights were ruined by a single pea
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a confrère of the princess whose nights were ruined by a single pea
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baneful
(en)
destructive; pernicious
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pushes us into a baneful direction where we learn nothing new
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pushes us into a baneful direction where we learn nothing new
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obsequies
(en)
funeral rites
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conduct the obsequies
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conduct the obsequies
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apotheosis
(en)
the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax
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Proust was not implying that painting had reached its apotheosis in Impressionism
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Proust was not implying that painting had reached its apotheosis in Impressionism
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lacuna
(en)
an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)
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the lacuna in her knowledge of art history
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the lacuna in her knowledge of art history
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volubility
(en)
the quality of talking fluently, readily, or incessantly; talkativeness
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I detest my own volubility
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I detest my own volubility
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