baguet | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguette |
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banquet | (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: feast, spread |
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(noun) a ceremonial dinner party for many people | Synonyms: feast |
(verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: feast, junket |
(verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: feast, junket |
bouquet | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: corsage, nosegay, posy |
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(noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: fragrance, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness |
briquet | (noun) a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel | Synonyms: briquette |
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casquet | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquetel |
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coquet | (noun) a seductive man who uses his sex appeal to exploit women | - |
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(verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
croquet | (noun) a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg | - |
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(verb) play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops | - |
(verb) drive away by hitting with one's ball | - |
cruet | (noun) bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table | Synonyms: crewet |
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duet | (noun) (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble) | Synonyms: pas de deux |
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(noun) a musical composition for two performers | Synonyms: duette, duo |
(noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: couple, duo, twosome |
(noun) two performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: duette, duo |
(noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
minuet | (noun) a stately court dance in the 17th century | - |
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(noun) a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite | - |
paraquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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paroquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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parquet | (noun) seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle | - |
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(noun) a floor made of parquetry | Synonyms: parquet floor |
parroquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket |
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piquet | (noun) a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards | - |
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(noun) a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake | Synonyms: picket |
racquet | (noun) a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games | Synonyms: racket |
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sobriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, soubriquet |
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soubriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet |
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suet | (noun) hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep | - |
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tourniquet | (noun) bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure | Synonyms: compression bandage |
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