amarelle | (noun) pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice | - |
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(noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus caproniana |
bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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(noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
(noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
barcarolle | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarole |
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bastille | (noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) | - |
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belle | (noun) a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | - |
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boulle | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boule, buhl |
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braille | (noun) a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals | - |
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chandelle | (noun) a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction | - |
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chantarelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chanterelle |
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chanterelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle |
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chenille | (noun) a heavy fabric woven with chenille cord; used in rugs and bedspreads | - |
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(noun) a soft tufted cord used in embroidery | Synonyms: chenille cord |
cocozelle | (noun) squash resembling zucchini | - |
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(noun) squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow | Synonyms: Italian vegetable marrow |
coquille | (noun) a dish in the form of a scallop shell | - |
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(noun) seafood served in a scallop shell | - |
coville | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: creosote bush, hediondilla, Larrea tridentata |
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crenelle | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenel |
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(noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, scallop |
damoiselle | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damosel, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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demoiselle | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: damselfish |
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(noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel |
deshabille | (noun) the state of being carelessly or partially dressed | Synonyms: dishabille |
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dishabille | (noun) the state of being carelessly or partially dressed | Synonyms: deshabille |
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escadrille | (noun) an air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I) | - |
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(noun) a small squadron | - |
espadrille | (noun) a sandal with a sole made of rope or rubber and a cloth upper part | - |
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faille | (noun) a ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton | - |
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farfalle | (noun) pasta shaped with scalloped edges and pinched in the middle, suggestive of a bow tie | Synonyms: bowtie pasta |
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fille | (noun) a young female | Synonyms: girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman |
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filoselle | (noun) a soft silk embroidery thread. | - |
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fontanelle | (noun) any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus | Synonyms: fontanel, soft spot |
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gazelle | (noun) small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes | - |
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gerbille | (noun) small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: gerbil |
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grille | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grillwork |
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(noun) grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator | Synonyms: radiator grille |
(noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: lattice, wicket |
grisaille | (noun) chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief | - |
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immortelle | (noun) mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere | Synonyms: Xeranthemum annuum |
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mademoiselle | (noun) small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico | Synonyms: Bairdiella chrysoura, silver perch |
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marseille | (noun) strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedspreads | - |
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micelle | (noun) an electrically charged particle built up from polymeric molecules or ions and occurring in certain colloidal electrolytic solutions like soaps and detergents | - |
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molle | (noun) small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits | Synonyms: pepper tree, Peruvian mastic tree, Schinus molle |
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muscadelle | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscat, muscatel |
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nacelle | (noun) a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine | - |
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nonpareille | (noun) a 6-point printing type: a size smaller than minion. | - |
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organelle | (noun) a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ | Synonyms: cell organ, cell organelle |
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pastille | (noun) a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat | Synonyms: cough drop, pastil, troche |
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pennoncelle | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, penoncel |
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pipistrelle | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrel, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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quadrille | (noun) a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples | - |
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(noun) music for dancing the quadrille | - |
ratatouille | (noun) a vegetable stew; usually made with tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onion, and seasonings | - |
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reveille | (noun) a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise | - |
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(noun) (military) signal to wake up | Synonyms: wake-up signal |
roselle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, rozelle, sorrel |
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rozelle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, sorrel |
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rubicelle | (noun) a yellow or orange variety of ruby spinel | - |
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splitsville | (noun) separation or breakup or divorce | - |
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tagliatelle | (noun) pasta cut in narrow ribbons | - |
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tarantelle | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantella |
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tuille | (noun) armor plate that protects the hip and thigh | - |
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tulle | (noun) a fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns | - |
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vaudeville | (noun) a variety show with songs and comic acts etc. | Synonyms: music hall |
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volaille | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, poulet |
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volvelle | (noun) a circular slide chart having rotating parts | Synonyms: wheel chart |
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