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271 rossignol
rissolé [Fr; fern, rissolée], browned, as by frying: cookery.
risum teneatis, amici? [L], could you help laughing, my friends?: Horace.
risus [L], a laugh; laughter.
risvegliato [It], awakened; lively; with renewed animation: music.
ritardando [It], retarding; becoming gradually slower (abbr. rit. or ritard.):
music.
ritenuto [It], held back; gradually slackening speed (abbr. rit. or ritten.):
music.
ritornello [It], a brief instrumental prelude or refrain; ritornelle: music.
ritratto [It; pi. ritratti], portrait; representation.
Ritter [Ger; sing. & pi.], knight. —Ritter der traurigen Gestalt, knight
of the woeful countenance (i.e., Don Quixote).
rituale [L], manual for priests; ritual: R.C.Ch.
rivière [Fr], river; stream; jewelry, many-stringed necklace of precious
stones, esp. diamonds.
rixatur de lana saepe caprina [L], he often quarrels about goat's wool;
he quarrels about anything or nothing: Horace.
riz [Fr], rice.
robe de chambre [Fr], dressing gown.
robe de cour [Fr], court dress.
robe de nuit [Fr], nightdress.
rocaille [Fr], artificial rockwork, as for gardens.
roche moutonnée [Fr; pi. roches moutonnées], a knob or knoll of rock
rounded like the back of a sheep, as the result of glacial action.
rodeo [Sp], cattle roundup with tests of range skills.
rôdeur [Fr], prowler.
rodina [Russ], native land.
rognon [Fr], kidney.
rôle d'équipage [Fr], list of the crew; muster roll; roster.
rolpens [Du], tripe and minced beef mixed together and usually eaten
fried.
roman à clef [Fr], lit., novel with a key; novel in which real personages
are depicted as fictional.
romanza [It], a romance; a short musical composition, usually suggestive
of a love song; ballad: music.
rompez le pas! [Fr], break step!: mil.
rompez les rangs! [Fr], lit., break ranks; dismiss!: mil.
ropa [Sp], clothing; wearing apparel.
rosalia [It], the successive repetition of a phrase or motif, each time
being transposed a step or half step higher or, occasionally, lower:
music.
rosbif [Fr], roast beef.
rose du Barry [Fr], a rose tint used on Sèvres porcelain.
rossignol [Fr], nightingale; Canada, the song sparrow. —rossignol
d'Arcadie, jackass.