Madame Bovary Vocabulary
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- cavatina
- n. an operatic solo simpler and briefer than an aria
- torpor
- n. dullness, apathy
- busby
- n. a military full-dress fur hat
- toque
- n. a woman's small hat without a brim
- fez
- n. a round red felt hat that has a flat top and a tassel but no brim
- sacristy
- n.a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept
- pince-nez
- n. eyeglasses clipped to the nose by a spring
- aquiline
- adj. of or resembling an eagle
- languor
- n. weakness or weariness of body or mind
- sonorous
- adj. giving out sound when struck loud deep or rich in sound
- vestibule
- n. a passage, hall or room between outer dor and interiro of a building
- debauch
- v. to make disloyal to lead away from virtue or excellence
- lascivious
- adj. lustful
- malaise
- n. an indefinate feeling of debility or lack of health
- verdure
- n. the greeness of growing vegetation condition of health and vigor
- limpid
- adj. marked by trasparency
- venal
- adj. capable of being bought or obatained for money
- cotillion
- n. a ballroom dance for couples
- quadrille
- n. a square dance for couples
- espaliered
- to train as or on an espalier (a tree or shrub trained to grow in a flat plain against a wall)
- racahout
- a preperation from acron used by the arabs as a substitute for chocolate
- bagatelles
- an unimportant thing - or a short light piece of music
- dissimulation
- to conceal one's true feelings or intention
- apoplexy
- sudden impairment of neurological function; a stroke
- phantasmgoria
- fantastic imagery as represented in art