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Cuvettes. 'Bowls.' Diminutive of 'cuve,' 'vat,' O. Eng. 'coop,' whence 'cooper.' In modern Fr. 'cuvette' is 'washhand basin.'

44 'Malmsey,' a sweet wine, to which (according to the story) Edward IV.'s brother, Duke of Clarence, was so partial. There is no anachronism here; for it is a Greek wine grown near Napoli di Malvasina, in the Morea, or ancient Peloponnesus. 45 'Slaves that wait at table.'

46 L'attirail'tout ce qui y est attiré, qui y appartient,' 'all the paraphernalia.'

Goinfre 'gourmand.'

51 Foyau. From mediæval Lat. ‘jocale.' Derivative, 'joaillier.' 54 Labeur. Used of any labour; labour,'. only of husbandry. 'Labeur' and 'honneur' are the only words in -eur, from Lat. -or, that retain the original masculine gender.

58 Everything was valued, and then each sister was to take her choice.

66 The very opposite of what the will meant.'

Contrepied is said, in hunting, of following the trail or scent the wrong way, when hounds run a heel-scent.

67 Défunt. From Lat. 'defunctus,' sc. 'vitâ.'

74 Gré. Cf. I. xiv. 34.

75 Subjunctive depending on negative.

76 Partant.

' accordingly.'

Lat. 'per tantum,' in just the same proportion,

79 Biberon (1) a sucking-bottle;' (2) 'a toper.' Formed on the analogy of 'forgeron.'

Bétail. Singular collective, from Lat. ‘bestialia.' In plural, 'bestiaux.'

81 Esop, the so-called 'Phrygian slave,' was said to have been born at Cotiæum, in Phrygia. But Samos, Sardis, and Mesembria, in Thrace, also claimed to be his birthplace.

82 Alléguer. Lat. 'allegare,' 'to allege.' 'Alléger,' Lat. ‘alleviare” (‘léger,' from Lat. 'levis'), ‘to alleviate.'

86 Leur. Dative of possessor.

87 Comptant. As adverb='en argent comptant;' i.e. 'pay all off at once.'

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