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Carte de Tendre : Map of Tenderness

Billets-Doux : Love-letters. Petits-Soins : Trifling attentions. Billets-Galants : Polite epistles. Jolis- Vers : Sprightly verses.

18. Unie : \ Unadorned. Désarmé : Destitute. L-rcgulière en cheveux : With locks inartistically arranged.

3. On n'y dure point and On n'y tient pas hâve a similar meaning :

There is no holding ont against such vulgarity ; it is not to be borne.'

4. The ruflf (rabat) was at first only the shirt-collar pulled ont and

worn ontside the coat. Later, rufFs were worn which were not fastened to the 'shirt, sometimes adorned with lace, and tied in front with two strings with tassels.

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fe. Décrier: To bring into disrepu te ; to disgrâce.

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