tenir à : hère, to belong to> form part of

241. Compare our somewhat parallel English proverb, ' You know a man by his friends.'

265. prélasser, lit. to sirut ; to be as proud as one who is borne in triumph (praelatus) ; hère, to recline.

267. chapeau à claque, a crush-hat^ such as was worn in France in the eighteenth century, and by English officers at the beginning of the nineteenth. The hat could be squeezed under the arm when not worn.

301. prunelle, eye. Literally 'prunelle^ a sloe> thence the pupil of the eye likened to a little black plum.