Pains de sucre, sugar cakes. Cf.: "Chocolaté

con lèche y bollos para almuerza (chocolaté and milk with sugar cakes for breakfast)." —"The Alhambra," W. Irving.

53. 10. Danse de caractère, pioturesque dance. Cf. the adjective expressive, 1; 15, and also the following description of a Spanish girl by W. Irving in " The Alhambra ": " She sang, played the guitar and other instruments, and danced the pioturesque dances of her country to admiration."

28. 25. Le bruyant ébéne. The noun ébène is féminine in modem French. Larousse remarks that many old authors made it masculine, and that one example is even found in Voltaire:

"Dial. de Pég. et du vieillard." Thisisa more récent example.