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125 far almanacchi
faire une trouée [Fr], to make an opening; fig., to dislodge skepticism;
break down opposition; make one's point.
faire un impair [Fr], to make a tactless blunder in conversation.
faire un trou à la lune [Fr], lit., to make a hole in the moon; flee one's
creditors; decamp; skip town.
faire venir l'eau à la bouche [Fr], to make the mouth water.
faisan [Fr; fern, faisane], pheasant.
fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra [Fr], do your duty, come what
may.
fait accompli [Fr], an accomplished fact; a thing already done.
fait à peindre [Fr], lit., made to paint; pretty as a picture.
fakir [Hind & Ar; pr. fa-kër], Muslim religious mendicant: India. Cf.
SANNYASI.
falando no diabo, ele aparece [Pg], speaking about the devil, he appears.
falda [Sp], side of a hill or mountain; skirt.
faldetta [It], hooded cape worn by women: Malta.
falla [Sp], fissure; open fault: geol.
fallacia consequentis [L], fallacy of the consequent; non sequitur: logic.
fallentis semita vitae [L], the narrow path of an unnoticed life: Horace.
falsa lectio [L; pi. falsae lectiones], an erroneous reading.
falsi crimen [L], the crime of falsification: law.
falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus [L], false in one thing, false in
everything.
faltóle lo mejor, que es la ventura [Sp], he lacked the best of all—good
luck.
fama clamosa [L], noisy rumor; current scandal.
fama malum quo non aliud velocius ullum [L], rumor is an evil than
which there is nothing swifter: Virgil.
famam extendere factis [L], to spread abroad his fame by deeds: Virgil.
fama nihil est celerius [L], nothing is swifter than rumor.
fama semper vivat! [L], may his (or her) fame live forever!
fama volât [L], the report flies: Virgil.
fanatico [It; pi. fanatici], fanatic; visionary.
fanático [Sp], sports fan; enthusiast.
fanega [Sp], in Spain and Spanish America, a dry measure equal to
about 1.5 bushels; also, a Spanish land measure equal to about 1.6
acres.
fango [Sp], mud; mire.
fantaisiste [Fr], adj. fanciful; whimsical; capricious; imaginative; n. a
writer or artist who obeys only the caprices of his imagination.
fantoccino [It; pi. fantoccini], doll; puppet; marionette; also, simpleton.
farallón [Sp; pl. farallones], rocky islet, usually found in groups, as in
the Farallón Islands, or Farallones, off the coast of California.
far almanacchi [It], lit., to make calendars; build castles in the air.