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sánete et sapienter 276
"Miss Togo" would be Togo San (or more fully, Togo San no ojosan, lit.,
Mr. Togo's young lady), while, if her personal name alone were used,
the form would be O— San; as, O Kiku San (lit., the honorable Miss
Chrysanthemum).
sánete et sapienter [L], with holiness and wisdom.
sanctum sanctorum [L], holy of holies; colloq., a private room or retreat;
den.
sanft [Ger], soft; gentle: music.
sang-de-boeuf [Fr], lit., ox's blood; a dark-red color found on old
Chinese porcelain; ox blood.
sang-froid [Fr], lit., cold blood; coolness; composure; calmness; nonchalance.
sanglier [Fr], boar; wild boar.
sangre [Sp], blood. —sangre azul, blue blood. —sangre fría, cold blood.
sangría [Sp], wine punch with fruit and soda water.
sannyasi [Hind 8c Skr], lit., abandoner; one who has abandoned all
worldly desires; Hindu religious mendicant and ascetic: Hinduism. Cf.
FAKIR.
sans [Fr], without. —sans âme, spiritless. —sans appel, without appeal.
—sans cérémonie, without ceremony; informally. —sans changer,
without changing. —sans détour, straightforward; sincere; sincerely.
—sans Dieu rien, without God, nothing. —sans doute, without doubt;
doubtless. —sans façon, without ceremony; offhand; informally;
outspokenly. —sans faute, without fail. —sans gêne, unconstrained;
unceremonious; free-and-easy. —sans le sou, without a sou; penniless.
—sans mélange, unmixed; fig., unalloyed; pure. —sans pareil, without
equal; matchless. —sans peine, without difficulty; readily; easily.
—sans peur et sans reproche, without fear and without reproach;
chivalrous. —sans phrase, without circumlocution; in a word. —sans
raison, without reason; groundless; groundlessly. —sans souci, without
care; happy-go-luckyism; unconcern. —sans tache, without spot
(or blemish); stainless.
sans-culotte [Fr; pi. sans-culottes], lit., without breeches; a term of
reproach given by the aristocrats to the extreme republicans (wearers
of pantaloons instead of knee breeches) in the first French Revolution;
hence, a violent revolutionist.
sansei [Jap], lit., third generation; a grandchild of Japanese immigrants
to America. Cf. NISEI.
sans-gêne [Fr], absence of constraint; coolness; offhandedness; familiarity;
also, an unceremonious and coolly familiar person.
santé [Fr], health. —corps de santé, medical staff. —maison de santé,
private asylum; sanatorium.
Santiago y a ellos! [Sp], Santiago (St. James) and at them!: Spanish
battle cry, especially of the conquistadores.
Santo [Sp; fern, santa], saint; also a saint's image.