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FrenchWhen the word French is capitalized, it can have these meanings:
The uncapitalized french can have these meanings:
The word also appears in many short phrases such as french doors, french horn, french toast, etc., coined to imply origination in or association with France, not necessarily accurately. Another application of the word French is in words like French pictures (early pornographic images) and French letters (an early English euphemism for condoms), and french kiss (the open mouth kind). There are similar expressions in France, but referring to England. The "French cream" (a sweet milky sauce for desserts like cakes) is called in French "crème anglaise" (English cream). In the same way condoms used to be called "capotes anglaises" (English overcoats) and "to take French leave" translates as "filer à l'anglaise". red-hot pokers in his pocket, and cries "Here's somebody coming!" or
it!" when Everything is capable, with the greatest ease, of being
Now, too, I perceive my first experience of the dreary sensation--
back to the dull, settled world.html">world; of wanting to live for ever in the
with the wand like a celestial Barber's Pole, and pining for a Fairy
my eye wanders down.html">down the branches of my Christmas Tree, and goes as
familiar proscenium, and ladies in feathers, in the boxes!--and all
colours, in the getting-up of The Miller and his Men, and Elizabeth,
failures (particularly an unreasonable disposition in the
and double up, at exciting points of the drama), a teeming world of
Christmas Tree, I see dark, dirty, real Theatres in the day-time,
rarest flowers, and charming me yet.
But hark! The Waits are playing, and they break my childish sleep!
set forth on the Christmas Tree? Known before all the others,
bed. An angel, speaking to a group of shepherds in a field; some
manger; a child in a spacious temple, talking with grave men; a
by the hand; again, near a city gate, calling back the son of a
opened roof of a chamber where he sits, and letting down a sick
water to a ship; again, on a sea-shore, teaching a great multitude;
restoring sight to the blind, speech to the dumb, hearing to the
ignorant; again, dying upon a Cross, watched by armed soldiers, a
voice heard, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Still, on the lower and maturer branches of the Tree, Christmas
silenced; the Rule of Three, with its cool impertinent inquiries,
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