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Cyrano vocab
Words used in the text of Hooker's translation of Cyrano de Bergerac
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vice | an immoral or evil habit or practice |
| Swashbuckler | a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil. |
| Ostentation | display intended to impress others. |
| Patron | a person who supports with an artist, writer, institution, or cause. |
| Deprecating | expressing earnest disapproval of. |
| Genial | warmly and pleasantly cheerful. |
| Countenance | the face |
| Popinjay | a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter. |
| Caparisoned | dressed richly |
| Impertinence | unmannerly intrusion or presumption; rudeness |
| Extempore | on the spur of the moment; without premeditation or preparation; offhand |
| Array | rich clothing; apparel |
| Profane | to treat anything sacred with irreverence or contempt |
| Sublime | of high moral, aesthetic, intellectual, or spiritual value; noble; exalted |
| Nebulous | lacking definite form, shape, or content; vague or amorphous |
| Ruddily | in a reddish manner |
| Terrestrial | of or pertaining to the earth |
| Interminable | seemingly without an end. |
| Lyre | a stylized harp used for poetry |
| Prose | non-poetic writing |
| Bungler | one who is clumsy and awkward |
| Pentacrostic | a series of lines or verses in which the first, last, or other particular letters when taken in order spell out a word, phrase, etc. This happens 5 times. |
| Engenders | bring about, create |
| Supple | bendable |
| Dowager | wealthy widow |
| Palpitate | to pulsate; quiver; throb; tremble |
| Perforce | of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance |
| Fetter | a chain; anything that confines or restrains |
| Souse | a drunk |
| Collaborate | work together |
| Livery | a uniform worn by servants. |
| Steward | a person who has charge of the household of another. |
| Reverie | a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing; daydream. |
| Rhapsodizes | to speak or write (something) with extravagant enthusiasm. |
| Besiege | to surround (a fortified area, esp. a city) with military forces to bring about its surrender. |
| Lunacy | intermittent insanity, formerly believed to be related to phases of the moon. |
| Tracery | any delicate, interlacing work of lines, threads, etc., as in carving or embroidery |
| Forlorn | desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance. |
| Martyrdom | extreme suffering; torment. |
| Volubility | characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; talkative. |
| Grandiloquent | speaking or expressed in a lofty style. |
| Wedlock | the state of marriage; matrimony. |
| Rigmarole | confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk. |
| Despatch | an official communication or report, sent in haste |
| Disquiet | to deprive of calmness, equanimity, or peace; disturb; make uneasy |
| Parapet | a defensive wall or elevation, as of earth or stone, in a fortification. |
| Fife | a high-pitched transverse flute used commonly in military and marching musical groups. |
| Furtively | taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret |
| Askance | with a side glance; sidewise; with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval |
| Plume | a large, long, or conspicuous feather |
| Dispositions | arrangement, positioning, or distribution |
| Reprovisioning | replenishing the supply of something, especially of food or other necessities. |
| Pretense | a false show of something |
| Chevrons | a badge consisting of stripes meeting at an angle, as an indication of rank or service |
| Eviscerated | removed the innards from |
| Solicitude | an attitude expressing excessive attentiveness |
| Recoil | to spring or fly back, as in consequence of force of impact or the force of the discharge, as a firearm. |
| Annulled | to make void or null; abolish; cancel; invalidate |
| Redoubt | a fortification forming a complete enclosure of any form, used to defend a prominent point. |
| Declaims | to speak aloud in an oratorical manner |
| Embroidery | decorative needlework |
| Tapestry | a heavy ornamental fabric, often in the form of a picture, used for wall hangings |
| Reliquary | a container for relics or holy objects |
| Satire | a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. |
| Serge | a twilled worsted or woolen fabric used especially for clothing. |
| Ducal | of or pertaining to a duke or dukedom. |
| Lackey | a footman or liveried manservant. |
| Exhorting | urging, advising, or cautioning earnestly; admonishing urgently |
| Vespers | a religious service in the late afternoon or the evening. |
| Gazette | a newspaper |
| Malady | any disorder or disease of the body |
| Swathed | wrapped, bound, or swaddled with bands of some material; wrapped up closely or fully. |
| Shod | covered over |
| Vanity | excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements |
| Riven | torn apart, separated, or split |
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