Sauve qui peut

n

a state of panic or disorder; rout

[literally: save (himself) who can]

hd: High Dudgeon

Definition:
N. A feeling of intense indignation.Feeling great resentment.  Taking great offense at something.

Use at your next Family Reunion:
Uncle Tim debated us in such high dudgeon fashion, because he felt we were judgmental Christians; he feared we hated him for his atheistic philosophy.

Literary Context:
She heard an Italian tossing off English slang to a German butcher, and a Russian in high dudgeon hurling French curses at a German taxi driver.  pg 96

Hunt for Words: Found the word reading Nancy Horan's Novel Loving Frank.  Had never seen the word before this.

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Pp: Pages (Hotel Style)

Definition:

1. A boy who acted as a knight's attendent as the first stage of training for chivalric knighthood.
2. One who is employed to run errands, carry messages, or act as a guide in a hotel, theatre, club or the U.S. Congress or another legislature.  

Simple Sentence to Use at the Next Hotel You Stay In:

Calling the front desk, "Can you send a page right away, with the complementary towell, toothpaste, and bar of soap to room 212, thanks!"

Literary Context:

Pages swished quietly past the skirts and luggage of new arrivals.  pg 91

Word Hunt: 

Found the word in the book Loving Frank.   I knew the meaning but I thought what if people only have the one meaning of the word page to mean parts of a book.  Or a sheet of paper.   The whole paragraph would be lost and look completely different, you would have floating sheets of paper quietly passing the skirts and luggage of new arrivals.  I would want to know what was written on the sheets of paper.  But this actually means that people with messages were running this way and that.   

Rr: Repose

n.

1. The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

2. Freedom from worry; peace of mind.

3. Calmness; tranquillity.

v. re·posed, re·pos·ing, re·pos·es

v.tr.

1. To lay (oneself) down.

2. To rest or relax (oneself).

v.intr.

1. To lie at rest.

2. To lie dead: repose in a grave.

3. To lie while being supported by something.

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[From Middle English reposen, to be at rest, from Old French reposer, from Late Latin repausre,to cause to rest : Latin re-, re- + Latin pausre, to rest (from Latin pausa, rest; see pause).]

IN CONTEXT:
The word "repose" floated in the air as Frank looked around at the women.  He seemed to be taking measure of them,  as a preacher might.  pg 10 (Loving Frank Nancy Horan)

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Ff: Fer-de-lance

n. pl. fer-de-lance A venomous tropical American pit viper (Bothrops atrox) having brown and grayish markings. [French, from fer de lance, spearhead : fer, iron + de, of + lance, spear.]

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Get bitten by a fer-de-lance snake and you're dead within half an hour if you don't get treatment.

KINGS OF THE JUNGLE; RECORD'S MAN JOINS REGIMENT IN TROPICAL HELLHOLE ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

Ff: Fenestrate

adj.

1. Architecture Having windows or windowlike openings.

2. Biology Having fenestrae.

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[From Latin fenestrtus, past participle of fenestrre, to furnish with windows, from fenestra, window.]

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In Context:

Coy was first in line, wearing a much too large helmet, his apparel scribbled over with words he didn't know: futile and fenestrate.

Love is the Crooked Thing- Lee K. Abbot

Aa: Adenoids

The small mass of lymphoid tissue located at the back of the nasal cavity. Swelling of the adenoids can block breathing through the nose.

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Ii: Indomitable

in·dom·i·ta·ble (n-dm-t-bl)

adj.

Incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished; unconquerable.

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[Late Latin indomitbilis : Latin in-, not; see in-¹ + Latin domitre, to tame, frequentative of domre, to subdue; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]

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in·domi·ta·bili·ty, in·domi·ta·ble·ness n.

in·domi·ta·bly adv.

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Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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