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135 frühe Hochzeit, lange Liebe
frérot [Fr], little brother: familiar.
frescamente [It], freshly; vigorously: music.
fresser [Yiddish], a glutton.
freudig [Ger], joyously; cheerfully: music.
friandise [Fr], taste for delicacies; epicurism; also, a dainty; pi., sweetmeats;
sweets.
Friedensbruch [Ger], breach of the peace.
Friedhof [Ger], lit., peace yard; churchyard; cemetery.
frijol or frijole [Sp; pi. frijoles], a cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus,
an important staple of food in Spanish America and southwestern
U.S.
Frimaire [Fr], in the Revolutionary calendar of the first French Republic,
the third month of the year, from Nov. 21 to Dec. 20.
fripier [Fr; fern, fripière], dealer in old clothes, furniture, etc.
fripon [Fr], knave; rogue; swindler. —fripon fieffé, arrant knave.
frisch [Ger], fresh; cheerful; lively: music.
frisch auf! [Ger], look alive! cheer up!
frisch, fromm, frei, froh [Ger], brisk, good, free, cheerful: motto of
German gymnastic clubs.
frit [Fr; fern, frite], cookery, fried; colloq., ruined; done for. —tout est
frit, it's all over.
friture [Fr], frying; thing fried; fry; fried fish: cookery.
fröhliche Weihnachten! [Ger], Merry Christmas!
froides mains, chaud amour [Fr], cold hands, warm heart.
Frokost [Dan], breakfast.
Fronde [Fr], a political party comprising rebellious French malcontents
during the minority of Louis XIV.
fronder [Fr], lit., to throw with a sling; blame; censure; find fault with.
frondeur [Fr; fern, frondeuse], lit., slinger; faultfinder; a member of
the Fronde (q.v.); hence, a malcontent; rebel.
frons est animi ianua [L], the forehead is the door of the mind: Cicero.
front à front [Fr], face to face.
fronti nulla fides [L], there is no trusting to appearances: Juvenal.
frottée [Fr], a drubbing; beating: colloq.
frottola [It; pi. frottole], ballad.
frou-frou [Fr; pi. frou-frous], rustle or swish, as of a silk skirt. —faire
du frou-frou, to show off.
frousse [Fr], fright; shock: colloq.
Fructidor [Fr], in the Revolutionary calendar of the first French Republic,
the twelfth month of the year, from Aug. 18 to Sept. 21.
fructu non foliis arborem aestima [L], judge a tree by its fruit, not by
its leaves: Phaedrus.
fruges consumere nati [L], born (merely) to consume the fruits of the
earth: Horace.
frühe Hochzeit, lange Liebe [Ger], early marriage, long love.