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139 gavroche
garde-côte [Fr; pi. garde-côtes or gardes-côtes], coast guard.
garde-feu [Fr; pi. garde-feu or garde-feux], fire guard; fender; fire
screen.
garde-fou [Fr; pi. garde-fous], parapet; railing; handrail.
garde-port [Fr; pi. gardes-port or gardes-ports], harbor master.
gardez bien [Fr], take good care.
gardez la foi [Fr], keep the faith.
gare [Fr], railway station; also platform. —chef de gare, station master.
—gare d'arrivée, arrival platform. —gare de départ, departure platform.
gare! [Fr], take care! look out! —gare de là!, clear the way there!
gari [Hind]. See GHARRY.
gariwala [Hind]. See GHARRY WALLAH.
gark [Armen], a carriage.
garm [Hind], hot; warm: India.
garnement [Fr], a good-for-nothing; scamp; scapegrace. Cf. VAURIEN.
garni [Fr; fern, garnie], furnished. —chambres garnies, furnished apartments.
gasconnade [Fr], boasting; bragging; braggadocio: so called from gascon,
a native of Gascony, proverbial home of braggarts.
gaspillé [Fr; fern, gaspillée], squandered; frittered away.
Gasthaus [Ger; pi Gasthäuser], restaurant; inn.
Gasthof [Ger; pi. Gasthöfe], hotel; inn.
gâté [Fr; fern, gâtée], spoiled. —enfant gâté, spoiled child.
gâteau [Fr; pi. gâteaux], a cake. —partager le gâteau, lit., to share the
cake; go halves.
gâterie [Fr], pampering, as of a child; excessive indulgence.
gâte-sauce [Fr], lit., a spoil-sauce; a bad cook.
gato [Sp; fern, gata], cat.
gato escaldado de agua fria tem mêdo [Pg], a scalded cat is afraid of
cold water.
gato que duerme no caza ratón [Sp], the sleeping cat doesn't catch a
mouse.
Gau [Ger; pi. Gaue], district; county; stretch of country.
gauche [Fr], lit, left; clumsy; awkward, esp. in society; tactless.
gaucherie [Fr], awkwardness; uncouth manners; tactlessness; social
blunder.
gaucho [Sp], cowboy: Argentina.
gaudeamus igitur [L], let us then be joyful.
gaudet tentamine virtus [L], virtue rejoices in trial.
gaudioso [It], joyous; merry: music.
gaudium certaminis [L], delight of battle.
gavage [Fr], forced feeding or fattening, as of poultry.
gavroche [Fr], street arab; gamin: from Gavroche, a Parisian gamin in
Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.