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pishu 246
pishu [Can Fr pichou], the Canadian lynx.
piso [Sp], pavement; floor; story; mining, lower face of a stratum.
—piso bajo, ground floor: abbr. p.b.
piste [Fr], trace; track; footprint; scent.
piton [Fr], screw ring; eyebolt; mountaineering, a bar or stanchion used
for fixing ropes on precipitous slopes; also, a steep peak.
più [It], more. —più allegro, quicker. —più lento, slower. —più mosso,
more animated; quicker: all music.
più tosto mendicanti che ignoranti [It], better be beggars than be
ignorant; better starve the body than the mind.
pizzicato [It], plucked by the fingers instead of being played with the
bow; also, a passage so played: music.
place [Fr], place; room; square; rank or stand for cabs and taxis.
—place!, make way! make room! clear the way! —place aux dames,
make way (or room) for the ladies. —place forte, fortified town;
stronghold. —place publique, public (or market) square; marketplace.
placebo [L], lit., I shall please; R.C.Ch., first antiphon in the vespers
for the dead; med., an innocuous prescription given merely to please
a patient.
placidaque ibi demum morte quievit [L], and there at length he reposed
in tranquil death: Virgil.
placitum [LL; pi. placita], decree; decision: law.
plafond [Fr], ceiling. —une araignée dans le plafond, lit., a spider in
the ceiling; a bee in one's bonnet.
plage [Fr], beach; shore.
plaidoyer [Fr], plea of counsel for the defense; pi., pleadings: Fr. law.
plainte [Fr], complaint.
plaisanterie [Fr], pleasantry; jesting; jest; joke.
plaque [Fr], plated metal; electroplate.
plat [Fr], a dish of food.
plata [Sp], silver.
playa [Sp], shore; strand; beach; in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas,
a level tract of silt and mud caused by the drying up of a flooded
area.
plaza [Sp], public square; also, fortified place.
plein [Fr], full.
plein air [Fr], the open air.
pleno iure [L], with full right (or authority).
plie [Fr], plaice.
plissé [Fr; fern, plissée], adj. plaited; gathered; n. plaiting; kilting;
gathering.
plus aloes quam mellis habet [L], he has more of gall (lit., of aloes)
than of honey; the bitter outweighs the sweet: Juvenal.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose [Fr], the more it changes,
the more it is the same thing.