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55 candide et constanter
camarilla [Sp], orig., a small audience chamber; band of intriguers;
cabal; clique; coterie.
camarín [Sp], repository behind an altar; closet; also, storehouse; shed.
camarista [Sp], member of the supreme council of la Cámara.
camarón [Sp], shrimp; crawfish.
camarote [Sp], cabin; stateroom: naut.
camastrón [Sp], cunning or crafty fellow.
camay [Tag], the hand: P.I.
cambio non è furto [It], exchange is no robbery.
camelot [Fr], peddler; hawker; also, newsboy.
camembert [Fr], a soft, surface-ripened cheese.
Camera Stellata [L], Star Chamber.
cameriere [It; pi. camerieri], waiter; valet.
camino [Sp], road; highroad; path; also, travel. —camino de sirga,
towpath. —camino real, the royal road.
camion [Fr], truck; wagon; military motor truck.
camisa [Sp], a shirt; mach., jacket.
camisade [Fr], night attack: mil.
camote [Sp], a tuber-bearing plant, esp. the yam or sweet potato.
camouflage [Fr; now naturalized], the disguising or concealment of
military works; fig., disguise or deception.
camouflet [Fr], whiff of smoke blown in the face; hence, affront; mil.,
a mine for blowing in the side of an enemy gun emplacement.
camoufleur [Fr], one skilled in the art of camouflage.
campagnard [Fr; fern, campagnarde], adj. rustic; rural; countrified; n.
a rustic; countryman; clodhopper. —à la campagnarde, in rustic
fashion; in country style.
campo [It; pi. campi], field; open ground. —campo santo, lit., sacred
field; cemetery.
Campus Martius [L], Field of Mars; a grassy plain used by the ancient
Romans for various contests, military exercises, and general assembly.
cañada [Sp], small canyon; glen: western U.S.
canaigre [Mex Sp], a large dock (Rumex hymenosepalus), the root of
which is rich in tannic acid: Mexico &f southwestern U.S.
canaille [Fr], rabble; riffraff; scoundrel.
canapé [Fr], sofa or divan; cookery, a piece of bread fried in butter and
covered with anchovies, cheese, etc.
canard [Fr], duck; fig., hoax; false rumor, —canard sauvage, wild duck.
cancan [Fr], gossip; a woman's dance, characterized by high kicking
while holding up the front of a ruffled skirt.
cancelli [L], lattice; latticed screen or railing.
candelia [Sp], bad weather, with rain, sleet, and cold, destructive to
sheep and cattle: Sp. Am. &f Texas.
candida Pax [L], white-robed Peace: Ovid.
candide et constanter [L], frankly and firmly.