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59 causeuse
[pi cartes de visite], visiting card; also, a small photograph, 214 Χ
3 3 Λ inches. —carte des vins, wine list, —carte du jour, menu of the
day. —carte du pays [pi. cartes du pays], map of the country; lay of
the land (lit. & fig.). —cartes sur table, cards on table; aboveboard.
casa [Sp, Pg, & It], house; mansion.
casaque tourner [Fr], to turn one's coat; change sides.
casarás y amansarás [Sp], marry and be tamed.
caseta [Sp], little house; naut., deckhouse.
casetta [It], little house.
casita [Sp], little house; house for a man's mistress.
casque [Fr], helmet.
casquijo [Sp], gravel.
cassette [Fr], small case or box; casket; photog., plate holder.
cassetur billa [LL], let the bill be quashed: law.
cassis Ultissima virtus [L], virtue is the safest helmet; an honest man
need fear nothing.
castaña [Sp], lit., chestnut.
castello che da orecchia si vuoi rendere [It], the castle that parleys
will soon surrender; fig., she who listens is going to yield.
castigat ridendo mores [L], it (comedy) corrects manners by laughing
at them.
casus [L], lit., a falling; fall; hence, occasion; event; occurrence; case.
—casus belli, an occasion for war; an act regarded as justifying war.
—casus conscientiae, a case of conscience, —casus foederis, lit., a
case of the treaty; a case within the stipulations of a treaty, —casus
fortuitus, an accident; chance. —casus omissus, a case omitted or
unprovided for, as in a law.
catalogue raisonné [Fr], descriptive catalogue arranged according to
subjects.
caudillo [Sp], chieftain; chief.
causa [L], cause. —causa causans, the cause that causes all things; the
cause in action; the Great First Cause, —causa causata, the cause
resulting from a previous cause; an effect. —causa essendi, cause of
being, —causa fiendi, cause of becoming. —causa finalis, final cause.
—causa latet, vis est notissima, the cause is hidden, but its force is
very well known: Ovid, —-causa mali, a cause of mischief. —causa
próxima, immediate cause. —causa remota, remote cause. —causa
secunda, secondary cause, —causa sine qua non, indispensable cause
(or condition). —causa vera, a true cause.
cause célèbre [Fr; pi. causes célèbres], a celebrated case; a widely debated
controversial issue.
causerie [Fr], chat; informal talk; also, a chatty newspaper article, esp.
on literary subjects.
causeur [Fr; fern, causeuse], talker; conversationalist.
causeuse [Fr], settee for two.