Dear WW: Here is musical challenge for you: Name the famous musical work named
like this:" Rather, the term "tombeau", as Lyotard indicates, in French,
carries the designation of a literary or musical genre -- " a sort of memorial movement". So:
"Name That Tune".
Le Tombeau de Couperin?
I'd do better with a multiple choice...
Hoo-whee! I got it! "Le Tombeau de Couperin" by Ravel. [I just googled "Le Tombeau de Couperin" and saw I'd been right. Sometimes the old noggin works!
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Erosion control
ENERGY DISSIPATOR, GRASS-LINED CHANNELS, RIPRAP, STREAMBANK STABILIZATION, and
GABIONS.
gabion
n.
Fr < It gabbione, large cage < gabbia, cage, coop < L cavea: see CAGE6
1 a cylinder of wicker filled with earth or stones, formerly used in building fortifications
2 a similar cylinder of metal, used as in building dams and dikes
Glacis - the gentle slope downhill away from old forts intended to simply aim
of musket marksmen in the fort - they would not have to be concerned about
elevation of aim.
glacis
n.,
pl. cis5Fr < OFr glacier, to slip < glace, ice < VL glacia: see GLACIER6
1 a gradual slope
2 an embankment sloping gradually up to a fortification, so as to expose attackers to defending gunfire
A couple terms I had to learn in Military Medicine many years ago.
defilade
vt., vi.
laded, < Fr d=filade, a filing off, succession < d=filer: see DEFILE26 to arrange (troops and fortifications) so that the terrain will protect them, esp. from gunfire against either flank
n.
1 the act of defilading
2 the protection afforded by defilading
And another related word:
defilade
vt., vi.
laded, < Fr d=filade, a filing off, succession < d=filer: see DEFILE26 to arrange (troops and fortifications) so that the terrain will protect them, esp. from gunfire against either flank
n.
1 the act of defilading
2 the protection afforded by defilading
And also learned in military medicine, but not French
interdictory fire - either artillery or machine gun fire that can prevent enemy from entering
an important part of terrain
has a certain je ne sais quoi.
The name of the composer Lyotard reminded me of the word "leotard".
I was surprised to find that "leotard" is an eponym:
leotard
n.
after J. L=otard, 19th-c. Fr aerial performer6 a one-piece, tightfitting, sleeved or sleeveless garment that covers, usually, only the torso: it is worn by acrobats, dancers, etc.: see also UNITARD
Dear Faldage: your "quoi" could be either knock or boost.
WO'N's post about vaudeville reminded me of:
matinee or matin=e
n.
Fr matin=e < matin, morning: see prec.6 a reception or entertainment held in the daytime; esp., a performance, as of a play, held in the afternoon
vaudeville - 1739, "light, popular song," especially one sung
on the stage, from Fr. vaudeville, alteration (by influence of
ville "town") of M.Fr. vaudevire, said to be from (chanson
du) Vau de Vire "(song of the) valley of Vire," in the
Calvados region of Normandy, first applied to the popular
satirical songs of Olivier Basselin, a 15c. poet who lived in
Vire. The other alternative is that vaudevire derives from
M.Fr. dialectal vauder "to go" + virer "to turn." The meaning
"theatrical entertainment interspersed with songs" first
recorded 1827.