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claque [Fr], a body of hired applauders: theat.
claquemuré [Fr; fern, claquemurée], shut in; cooped up; confined to
one's room.
claquer [Fr], to crack; slap; clap; applaud.
claqueur [Fr], hired applauder; claquer: theat.
clarior e tenebrie [L], (I shine) more brightly from out of the darkness.
clarum et venerabile nomen [L], illustrious and venerable name: Lucan.
clavis [L; pi. claves], key; glossary.
cliché [Fr], stereotype plate; photographic negative plate; fig., stereotyped
expression; hackneyed phrase.
clin d'oeil [Fr], twinkling of an eye; instant; a wink.
cloche [Fr], a bell.
clochette [Fr], small bell; hand bell.
cloison [Fr], partition, as of boards or masonry; division; naut., bulkhead.
cloisonné [Fr], inlaid between partitions: said of enamel in which thin
metal strips are bent to the outline of the design.
clôture [Fr], closure; a method of ending debate by a vote that "the
question now be put": parliamentary practice.
clou [Fr], nail; spike; fig., nucleus; center of attraction; main point of
interest.
cobre [Sp], copper.
coche [Sp], coach; carriage; car.
cocher [Fr], coachman; cabman.
cochera [Sp], coach house; R.R., engine shed; round house.
cochero [Sp], coachman; driver; P.I., hackney driver.
cochon [Fr], pig; hog. —cochon de lait, suckling pig.
cocotte [Fr], casserole; child's onomatopoetic word for "hen"; also, loose
woman; prostitute.
cocu [Fr], cuckold.
codetta [It], a short coda: music.
codex rescriptus [L], palimpsest; wooden writing surface.
coelitus mihi vires [L]. See CAELITUS.
coelum [L]. See CAELUM.
coetus dulces valete [L], happy meetings, fare ye well: Catullus.
cogito ergo sum [L], I think, therefore I am (or exist): Descartes.
cognati [L], relations on the mother's side; cognates: law.
cognoscente [It; pi. cognoscenti], connoisseur.
cognovit or cognovit actionem [L], lit., he has acknowledged the action;
the defendant's acknowledgment of the plantiffs claim: law.
cohue [Fr], noisy crowd; tumult.
coiffer Sainte Catherine [Fr], to put a headdress on St. Catherine;
remain an unmarried woman after age twenty-five. —coiffer un mari,
deceive a husband.
coiffeur [Fr; fern, coiffeuse], hairdresser.
coiffure [Fr], headdress; style of arranging the hair.