- Au pied de la lettre - quite literally
- Ex libris - from the library of, a mark indicating ownership, as if from a library
- Coup d'honneur - finishing blow in a duel
- Anti-pugilism - defense in boxing
- Congener - a person or thing in the same class as another
- Onomastics - the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names
- Intimation - hint
- Puerile - juvenile
- Ratiocinative - related to or marked by skilled methodical or logical reasoning
- Querulous - full of complaints, peevish, carping, (characterized by or inclined to petty or fussy faultfinding)
- Dour - stubbornly unyielding
- Commissionaire - A uniformed messenger employed by the Corps of Commissionaires for the employment of pensioned soldiers
- Hypermetropia - farsightedness
- Myopia - nearsightedness
- Par Excellence - being the best of its kind
- Luthieri - one who makes or repairs stringed instruments
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