Petite – baby. (31
Seigneur – Lord, God. (
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Tan’tante –
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palmetto – a sort of small palm trees.
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Il ne faut pas faire mal à Pauline. – Don’t do harm to Pauline. (
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la guerre = war. (
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Sumter – a county in South Caroline, US.
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Louisiana – the US state (123,366 sq. km) admitted to the union in 1812 as the 18th member; it borders Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas.
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Adieu! – Goodbye!
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Venus – the second planet from the Sun; when it is visible, it is the brightest in the sky.
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pied à terre – a place of refuge where a person lives from time to time. (
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pullman – a sleeping car used on railroads, invented by George Pullman (1831–1897), an American industrialist and inventor.
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San Antonio – a city in south-central Texas, founded in 1718 by Spanish explorers and named for St. Anthony of Padua.
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cashmere – a fine woolen fabric first made in Kashmir, India.
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the Rio Grande – a river in Texas, US, and Mexico, one of the longest rivers in North America; it flows to the Gulf of Mexico.
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mesquite – a deep rooted shrub or small tree in South America and in the southwest of the USA.
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maroon-colored – brownish-red.
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Apache – North American Indians who used to live in what is now southeastern Arizona and Colorado, southwestern New Mexico and western Texas.
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scalp-music – war music.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santana Fé Railroad – one of the largest railway companies in the United States, founded in 1859.
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Prometheus – in Greek religion, the god of fire and one of the Titans; the legend said that Zeus nailed him to the rock and sent an eagle to eat his liver as punishment for stealing fire and giving it to people.
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Tantalus – in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus; he was punished for his crimes against gods – in the underworld he stood in water but couldn’t drink, fruits hung above his head but he couldn’t eat them.
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Ixion – in Greek mythology, Zeus, to punish Ixion for murdering his father-in-law, bound him on a wheel which rolled without stopping.
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Hermes – in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus, and the god of cattle and sheep; he was also a dream god and the messenger of the gods.
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babel – a noisy and confused company.
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lorgnette – a pair of eye-glasses on a long handle.
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Harvard – the USA oldest higher educational institution, founded in 1636.
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Princeton – the fourth oldest university in the USA, founded in New Jersey in 1746.
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Yale – a private university in New Heaven, the third oldest in the US, founded in 1701.
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Williams – Roger Williams University in Nashville, Tennessee, US.
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Cornell – a university in Ithaca, a city in south-central New York state, founded in 1862.
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New Haven – a city in south-central Connecticut, founded in 1638.
