Miscellaneous Terms
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- ambience
- surroundings; atmosphere; enviroment
- pince-nez
- eyeglasses clipped to the nose by a spring
- passé
- old-fashioned; behind the times; outmoded
- coup de grace
- decisive finishing blow
- apropos
- by the way; incidentally / appropriate; relevant; pertinent
- foyer
- entrance hall; lobby anteroom; vestibule
- raison d'être
- reason or justification for existing
- rendezvous
- prearranged meeting or place; popular gathering place
- bagatelle
- trifle
- silhouette
- shadow; outline
- vis-à-vis
- face-to-face with; opposite / in relation to; as compared with
- tour de force
- feat of strength, skill, or inguity
- premiere
- first performance
- milieu
- environment; setting; surroundings
- fete
- festival; entertainment; party / honor with a fete
- queue
- line of persons or vehicles waiting their turn
- en route
- on or along the way
- avoirdupois
- weight; heaviness
- facade
- face or front of a building, or of anything; false front
- souvenir
- reminder; keepsake; memento
- par excellence
- above all others of the same sort (follows the word it modifies)
- parasol
- umbrella for protection against the sun
- etiquette
- required social or official usages; code of behavior
- sobriquet (soubriquet)
- nickname