A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases by Bliss A. J.;

Author:Bliss, A. J.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

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gaffe [Fr.] a blunder, clumsy tactlessness, saying the wrong thing. 20c. Cf. FAUX PAS. [N*]

gala [Fr., It.] a festive occasion, an occasion suitable for fine clothes, etc.; (clothes, etc.) suitable for a festive occasion; (a theatrical performance, etc.) conducted with special pomp and ceremony. 18c. Formerly pronounced as if English, now always as in French or Italian. [N,S]

galant [Fr.] Mus. light-hearted, elegant, and technically accomplished (music). 20c.

galanterie [Fr.] flattering attention to women, mild flirtation. 20c.

Galanteriekunst [Ger.] Art a style (of painting, etc.) which aims chiefly at elegance and technical accomplishment. 20c.

galantine [Fr.] Cul. boned white meat (usu. veal or chicken) boiled and served cold in its own jelly. 18c. [N,S]

galantuomo [It.] a decent, respectable man. 20c. Cf. HONNÊTE HOMME.

galbe [Fr.] Art curve, contour, outline, sweep; line, style, elegance. 20c.

galère [Fr. ‘galley’] set-up, set of people, circle. 18c. In allusion to Molière’s QUE DIABLE ALLAIT-IL FAIRE DANS CETTE GALÈRE? [S]

Galgenhumor [Ger. ‘gallows-humour’] morbid humour, ‘sick’ humour. 20c. Cf. HUMOUR NOIR.

galop [Fr.] a lively dance in 2/4 time, forming part of a set of QUADRILLES. 19c. In Ballet a galop often forms the conclusion of a DIVERTISSEMENT. [N]

gamin, f. gamine [Fr.] a street-urchin; (a man or woman) having an attractive impertinence supposedly characteristic of street-urchins. 19c. [N(*),S]

gaminerie [Fr.] an attractive impertinence like that of a street-urchin. 20c. [N*]

ganglion, pl. ganglia [Gk. γάγγλιον] Med. a knot on a nerve from which nerve-fibres radiate; hence, a centre of activity. 18c. [N,S]

garçon [Fr. ‘boy’] a (French) waiter. 19c. [N,S]

garçon gratuit [Fr.] an unwanted boy, a boy who feels himself or is felt to be alien to his family. 20c.

garçonne [Fr.] a bachelor girl, an ostentatiously independent woman. 20c.

garçonnière [Fr.] a bachelor flat. 20c. Cf. EN GARÇON.

garde champêtre [Fr.] a game-keeper; a rural constable. 19c. [S]

garde mobile [Fr.] a corps of militia, esp. in France in 1848 and 1868–71. 19c. [S]

garderobe [Fr. ‘wardrobe’] a mediaeval privy. 19c. [N]

garni [Fr.] Cul. (a dish) accompanied by the appropriate vegetables, etc. 20c. Cf. BOUQUET GARNI.

Gasthaus [Ger.] a (German) inn or small hotel. 19c. A Gasthaus is a more modest establishment than a GASTHOF. [N*,S]

Gasthof [Ger.] a (German) hotel. 19c. [N*,S]

gastronome [Fr.] an expert on the pleasures of the table. 19c. Cf. FIN GOURMET; GOURMET. [N,S]

gâteau, pl. gâteaux [Fr.] Cul. any dish of which the basis is a cake; any dish served in the form of a cake or pudding. 19c. [N]

gauche [Fr. ‘left (hand)’] awkward, lacking in tact or social grace. 18c. [N,S]

gaucherie [Fr.] tactlessness, lack of good manners or social grace. 18c. [N,S]

gaucho [Sp.] a half-breed mounted herdsman in South America. 19c. The word is probably orig. from some native American language. [N]

gaudeamus igitur [Lat.] let us therefore rejoice! 20c. From the German students’ drinking song, gaudeamus igitur juvenes dum sumus ‘let us therefore rejoice while we are young!’

gaudium certaminis, pl. gaudia certaminis [Lat.] the pleasure of the contest, the enjoyment of a good argument. 19c. [S]

gaufrette [Fr.] a wafer-biscuit, a sugar wafer. 20c.

Gauleiter [Ger.] ‘district leader’, a rank in the National Socialist hierarchy in Germany; hence, a petty dictator, a local FÜHRER.

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