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Cacholong
Cacholong or mother-of-pear opal and sometimes Kalmuck agate, is a variety of opal, usually grey in colour, milk white or bluish
white, and resembling mother-of-pearl. It is banded with layers of different colours and is a most attractive ornamental stone.
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How well I remember this word from the French Foreign Legion stories in series that started
with "Beau Geste". The legionnaires, in remote desert outposts, developing minor mental
disturbances because of boredom.
cafard
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5Fr, low spirits, cockroach, orig., hypocrite, altered (with pejorative 3ard) < MFr caphars < Ar kafir, hypocrite, lit., infidel: see KAFFIR6 boredom, melancholy, listlessness, etc.
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French for notebook. My first French teacher tried to get us to emulate the students whose
notebooks she had seen in France. I put a lot of work into one, but never looked at it after
I left her class. One thing I wish I still had. The book we used had a really marvelous set
of symbols for the sounds of French words. We had to learn that first, and wrote everything
in those symbols for a couple weeks. But it really worked. American dictionaries each with
their own sound symbols are for the birds.I like my CD dictionary, but have to take time
to delete the goofy garbage AWADtalk software makes from its symbols.
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smoky quartz
A transparent dark gray or brown quartz, also called cairngorm. Smoky quartz is found in
Switzerland, Scotland (Mt. Cairngorm), Russia, Iran, Brazil, Sri Lanka and the U.S.(Colorado,
California). It is sometimes used as a gemstone.
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In 1918, the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire invented a poetry form called the Calligram. The word
"calligram" is derived from the Greek "calli" and "gramma," which together mean "beautiful writing."
Apollinaire invented a poetry form of the word and used it as a title for a book of poems. His poems
didn't look like poems; they used new combination and shapes of words and lines. They were
different from shaped or "concrete" poems, for some were not in the shape of a particular thing; the
lines were tilted around the page or with words in various different sizes. His poetry took a step
toward making each work into a piece of visual art. See "Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic
Forms," edited by Ron Padgett, for a more complete answer. See November's ANSWER THIS for a
related topic, concrete poetry.
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A mercury compound, once used as a cathartic. Crazy.
calomel
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5ModL calomel, calomeles < Gr kalos, beautiful + melas, black: see MELANO36 mercurous chloride, HgCl, a white, tasteless powder that darkens on exposure to light: used in standard electrode cells and in agriculture and medicine to fight skin bacteria
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he Calotype was a positive/negative process introduced in 1841 by Fox Talbot, and popular
for the next ten years or so. Strictly speaking the term refers only to the negative image,
but it is commonly taken to mean both.
A piece of paper was brushed with weak salt solution, dried, then brushed with a weak
silver nitrate solution, dried, making silver chloride in the paper. This made it sensitive to light,
and the paper was now ready for exposure. This might take half an hour, giving a print-out
image. It was fixed in strong salt solution - potassium iodide of hypo.
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camber
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5OFr cambre, dial. var. of chambre, bent < L camur, crooked, arched: for IE base see CAMERA6
1 a slight convex curve of a surface, as of a road, a ship‘s deck, or a beam
2 in automotive wheel alignment, a slight tilt given to each of a pair of wheels on an axle: positive camber indicates that the bottoms are closer together than the tops, and negative camber indicates the opposite situation: see TOE-IN
3 Aeron. the arching curve of an airfoil from the leading edge to the trailing edge
vt., vi.
5Fr cambrer6 to arch slightly; curve convexly
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cambist
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5Fr cambiste < It cambista < cambiare, to exchange < LL cambiare < L cambire: see CHANGE6
1 an expert in foreign exchange, as a dealer in bills of exchange
2 a book that gives the rates of foreign exchange and equivalents of measure, weights, etc.
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