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hôte [Fr; fern, hôtesse], host; innkeeper; l<strong>and</strong>lord, also, guest; fig.,<br />

inhabitant; denizen.<br />

Hôtel des Invalides [Fr], a hospital in Paris, founded by Louis XIV,<br />

for aged <strong>and</strong> infirm soldiers.<br />

hôtel des postes [Fr], general post office.<br />

hôtel de ville [Fr], town hall.<br />

hôtel-Dieu [Fr; pi. hôtels-Dieu], chief hospital of a town.<br />

hôtel garni (or meublé) [Fr], lodging house; furnished apartments or<br />

lodgings.<br />

houppel<strong>and</strong>e [Fr], greatcoat; cloak.<br />

hubris [Gr ύβρις, húbris], wanton violence; overweening or arrogant<br />

behavior.<br />

hübsch [Ger], pretty.<br />

huerta [Sp], orchard; kitchen garden.<br />

huevo [Sp], egg; spawn.<br />

huissier [Fr], usher or doorkeeper, esp. for a king or nobleman; also,<br />

sheriffs officer; bailiff.<br />

huître [Fr], oyster; fig., dunce; blockhead.<br />

huius anni [L], of this year.<br />

huius mensis [L], of this month.<br />

hukm [Hind & Ar], order; comm<strong>and</strong>: India.<br />

humani nihil alienum [L], nothing that relates to man is alien to me:<br />

Terence (adapted).<br />

humanum est errare [L], to err is human,<br />

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