aerie | (noun) any habitation at a high altitude | Synonyms: aery, eyrie, eyry |
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(noun) the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) | Synonyms: aery, eyrie, eyry |
brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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calorie | (noun) unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure | Synonyms: gram calorie, small calorie |
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camaraderie | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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causerie | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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charcuterie | (noun) a delicatessen that specializes in meats | - |
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chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
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corrie | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: cirque, cwm |
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coterie | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, clique, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
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cowrie | (noun) any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Synonyms: cowry |
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curie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second | Synonyms: Ci |
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dearie | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
eyrie | (noun) any habitation at a high altitude | Synonyms: aerie, aery, eyry |
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(noun) the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) | Synonyms: aerie, aery, eyry |
faerie | (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faery, fairyland |
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(noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faery, fairy, fay, sprite |
gaucherie | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism |
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(noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: rusticity |
gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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grotesquerie | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquery |
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kilocalorie | (noun) a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food | Synonyms: Calorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie |
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knobkerrie | (noun) a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa | Synonyms: knobkerry |
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lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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marqueterie | (noun) inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture | Synonyms: marquetry |
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menagerie | (noun) the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition | Synonyms: zoo, zoological garden |
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(noun) a collection of live animals for study or display | - |
millicurie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie | - |
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parqueterie | (noun) a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor | Synonyms: parquetry |
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passementerie | (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
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patisserie | (noun) a bakery specializing in French pastry | - |
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prairie | (noun) a treeless grassy plain | - |
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reverie | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: revery |
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(noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, revery |
rotisserie | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats | - |
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(noun) an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns | - |