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pas = a false step, a mistake (French)
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pounds – pound is a unit of weight equal to 0.4535 kg
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Palm Beach – a famous resort on the Atlantic coast in Florida
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cicerone – a guide who describes to sightseers the places of interest
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Tuskageenial – the word invented by the author from Tuskagee, a city in central Alabama, and genial (kindly, sociable)
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lambrequins – the Baroque style ornaments; originally the mantling on a helmet to shield the wearer from the sun’s rays.
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tocsin = poisonous
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goblin – in Western folklore, a mischievous and malicious spirit attached to a household
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Stygian – here: terrible; from Styx, in Greek mythology, a river in the underworld.
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epicedian tears – here: mournful tears
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Falstaff – a fictional character in Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’
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Momus – in Greek mythology, the god of mockery
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Avaunt! = Go away! Off with you!
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Helen – Helen of Troy, a beauty, the cause of the Trojan War
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Cassiopeia – a constellation in the Milky Way Galaxy
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balustrade – a row of banisters to support a handrail on a balcony, staircase, etc.
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Erebus – here: darkness; in Greek mythology, Erebus (Darkness) is the offspring of Chaos.
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debility – weakness (of health)
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Wagner – Richard Wagner (1813–1883), a German dramatic composer
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Waldteufel – Emil Waldteufel (1887–1915), a French pianist and waltz composer
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Oolong – a famous sort of Chinese tea
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the Golden Gate – the strait in California between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean
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Hatteras – Cape Hatteras in North Carolina
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Cape Horn – a rocky headland on the southern tip of South America in Chile
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the Labrador – the Labrador current in North Atlantic Ocean, between Canada and Greenland
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Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) – a famous Florentine sculptor and goldsmith
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inches – an inch is a unit of length equal to 2.54 cm
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feet – pl. from foot; a unit of length equal to 30.48 cm
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Astrakhan rug portieres – thick woolen curtains
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Peoria – a city in central Illinois
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parkscape – from park + landscape
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the smile of the Cheshire cat – a very wide smile (idiom)
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Paphian = sensual
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typograph – a typewriter for the blind
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the Battery – White Point Gardens in South Carolina with monuments and military relics
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Gotham – a legendary v
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The Four Million – at the time when the stories were written, the population of New York City was 4 million people
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Coney – Coney Island, an amusement area in New York City
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County Sligo – a county in northeastern Ireland
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Punch and Judy – popular characters in the Punch-and-Judy puppet show; Punch is brutal and deceitful, and Judy is his wife.
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palmist – a person who reads character, fate and the future by the lines of the palm
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segar = cigar
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the Dagoes – a contemptuous name of the Italians, Spaniards and the Portuguese
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meerschaum – white clay-like substance, and a pipe made of it
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idiosyncrasies –
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physiognomy – the study of psychological characters by the features of the face and body structure
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the Queen of Sheba (10th century BC) – in the Old Testament, a ruler of the Kingdom of Saba in Arabia who visited the legendary King Solomon of Israel to test his wisdom, and brought a caravan of gold, jewels and spices with her
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a mammoth task = a tremendous task
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cosmopolite – a person with wide experience of the world, free from national prejudices
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garçons = waiters (
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mélange = mixture (
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Würzburger – a sort of beer
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Mauch Chunk – a town in the state of Pennsylvania
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table d’hôte – here: a set meal with a fixed price
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Hyderabad – a city in south-central India
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Kanakas – the Kanaka people, the South Pacific islanders
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Presto!