un refrain de café-concert, cf. the preceding

remark. **A café-concert refrain." A caféconcert is a cheap entertainment in a restaurant where refreshments are taken while a performance, generally singing, is going on.

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As to combinations like café-concert, which apparently constitutes a real compoiind noun, they are not unfrequent in French, particularly in mercantile terms. They may be readily ezplained from the omission of a proposition, for instance avec, café avec concei't, but in many cases the second noun has simply assumed the force of an adjective, cf. sahre-baionnettey page 32, 1. 6.

29.— 14. Chi lo aa (It.) pron: Kee io sah, 'Who knows?* (lit. who knows it ?)

31.— -11. tournant sur lui-même, that is, turning himself round and round so as to wind the wooUen belt firmly on his body.