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beaux yeux [Fr], fine eyes; good looks.
bébé [Fr], baby.
beca [Sp], a scholarship.
bec à bec [Fr], lit., beak to beak; face to face: colloq.
bécarre [Fr], the natural sign t} : music.
bécasse [Fr], woodcock; fig., idiot; imbecile.
bécassine [Fr], a snipe.
beccafico [It], lit., fig pecker; an Italian table delicacy consisting of song
birds that have fed on figs and grapes: cookery.
becfigue [Fr]. Same as BECCAFICO.
béchamel [Fr], a variety of rich cream sauce: cookery.
bêche-de-mer [Fr], a trepang or sea slug, a Chinese delicacy.
Befana [It], Epiphany eve.
beg or bey [Turk], a governor; also, a Turkish title equivalent to lord,
given to men of high rank.
Begeisterung [Ger], inspiration; spiritual enthusiasm; rapture.
Begleitung [Ger], accompaniment: music.
beglerbeg [Turk], lit., lord of lords or bey of beys; formerly, Ottoman
governor next in rank to the grand vizier.
béguinage [Fr], house or community of béguines', fig., affected devotion;
bigotry.
béguine [Fr], member of lay sisterhood in the Netherlands founded in
1180 by Lambert le Bègue (the Stammerer).
begum [Hind begam, fr. Turk fern, of bêg], Muslim lady of high rank;
princess; queen.
Beiblatt [Ger], supplement: abbr. Beibl.
beige [Fr], of the natural color of wool; undyed, light tan.
beigebunden [Ger], bound up with (other matter): abbr. beigeb.
beignet [Fr], a fritter. —beignets de pommes, apple fritters: cookery.
Beilage [Ger; pi. Beilagen], addition; enclosure; supplement; appendix.
bei meiner Treu [Ger], upon my honor.
bel air [Fr], fine bearing {or appearance); aristocratic manners.
bel canto [It], the singing of cantabile passages with purity, smoothness,
and artistic finish, in the traditional Italian manner: music.
belduque [Mex Sp], narrow sheath knife: southwestern U.S.
bel esprit [Fr; pi. beaux esprits], a man of wit; a wit; a brilliant mind.
bel étage [Fr], main floor (or story) of a house: arch.
bel et bien [Fr], entirely; quite; right well; in fine style.
bel hombre no es todo pobre [Sp], a handsome man is not wholly
destitute.
bella, hórrida bella [L], wars, horrid wars.
bellaque matribus detestata [L], and wars abominated by mothers:
Horace. Barbier's lines regarding the Vendôme column in Paris convey
a similar thought: ce bronze que jamais regardent les mères, this bronze
on which mothers never look.