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escroquerie [Fr], dishonest action, swindle.
escudo [Sp & Pg], lit., shield; a currency unit in Portugal and Chile.
es de vidrio la mujer [Sp], woman is made of glass: Cervantes.
è sempre l'ora [It], it is always the hour; it is always the right time.
esencia [Sp], fuel; generic name for gasoline, alcohol, and other
inflammable liquids. Cf. Fr. ESSENCE.
es gibt für die Kammerdiener keine Helden [Ger], valets have no
heroes: no man is a hero to his valet: Goethe.
es ist ewig schade [Ger], it is a thousand pities; lit., an unending pity.
es ist nicht alles Gold was glänzt [Ger], all is not gold that glitters.
es ist rein aus mit uns [Ger], it is all over with us.
eso es chino para mi [Sp], that is Chinese to me; it's Greek to me.
espada [Sp], sword; also, matador.
espadrille [Fr], rope-soled canvas shoe.
español [Sp; fern, española], adj. Spanish; n. Spaniard. —el español,
Spanish (the language).
espérance en Dieu [Fr], hope in God.
espérance et Dieu [Fr], hope and God.
espiègle [Fr], roguish; waggish; frolicsome.
espièglerie [Fr], roguish trick; waggishness.
espionnage [Fr], spying; espionage.
esposa [Sp], wife; spouse.
esposo [Sp], husband; spouse.
espressione [It], expression; feeling: music.
espressivo [It], expressive; with expression: music.
esprit [Fr], spirit; soul; mind; wit; sprightliness. —esprit borné (or
étroit), narrow mind, —esprit de corps, animating spirit of a collective
body and devotion to its honor and interests; a spirit of comradeship
and loyalty to the body or association to which one belongs. —esprit
de parti, party spirit, —esprit dérangé, disordered mind. —esprit
de suite, consistency. —esprit d'ordre, orderliness. —esprit follet,
goblin; elf; esp. one attached to a house or person, —esprit fort [pi.
esprits forts], lit., a strong spirit; strong-minded person; freethinker.
—esprit présent, ready wit.
esquisse [Fr], first rapid sketch or a design, painting, or of a model of
a statue; rough drawing; outline or general delineation, as of a novel;
preliminary study of a projected work: distinguished from ébauche,
or rough commencement of the actual work itself.
essayage [Fr], testing; trying on.
esse [L], to be; exist; being.
essence [Fr], fuel; specif., gasoline. Cf. Sp. ESENCIA.
esse quam videri [L], to be rather than to seem: motto of North Carolina.
—esse quam videri bonus malebat, he preferred to be rather than
to seem good: Sallust.