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ça ira [Fr], lit., it will go on; a French Revolutionary song, with the
refrain:
Ah, ça ira, ça ira, ça ira!
Les aristocrates à la lanterne!
(q.V., LES ARISTOCRATES À LA LANTERNE!)
caisse [Fr], box; case; cashier.
caja [Sp], case; box; receptacle; money chest; auto., body.
caji [Sp], schoolmaster, a variety of snapper: Cuba.
calabazilla [Mex Sp], a wild squash of Mexico and California; a soap
plant.
calabozo [Sp], dungeon; jail; also, a pruning knife.
calamaro [It], squid.
calando [It], decreasing in loudness; gradually becoming softer and
slower: music.
calavera [Sp], skull; hangover.
calèche [Fr], barouche; calash; in Quebec, a two-wheeled carriage with
a folding hood.
caleçon [Fr], short pants.
calembour [Fr], a pun.
calesa [Sp], carriage.
calesín [Sp], one-horse chaise, with driver's seat behind: P.I.
caliche [Am Sp], mineral deposit; saltpeter.
câlin [Fr; fern, câline], wheedling; coaxing.
calle [Sp], street; lane.
callejón [Sp], long narrow lane between high walls; narrow pass.
callida iunctura [L], skillful joining; cunning workmanship: Horace.
calliope [Gr Καλλιόπη, kalliopë, the beautiful-voiced], musical steam
organ, named after the Muse of eloquence and epic poetry; one of
the nine muses.
calmato [It], quiet; tranquil: music.
calore [It], heat; ardor. —con calore, with warmth; passionately: music.
caloroso [It], with warmth; animated: music.
calotte [Fr], skullcap, as worn by priests.
calvados [Fr], apple brandy.
calzada [Sp], paved highway; causeway: Sp. Am.
calzado [Sp], shoes; footgear: generic term.
camaïeu [Fr], orig., cameo; fine arts, a painting in monochrome, in
imitation of bas-relief; fig., a monotonous play or other literary
composition.
cámara [Pg], chamber; house, as of parliament.
cámara [Sp], hall; chamber; king's court (la Cámara).
camarade [Fr], comrade; chum; companion.
camaraderie [Fr], comradeship; fellowship; party spirit.
camarero [Sp], waiter; valet.