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canaille: riffraff; proletarian; the mob; rabble cancerophobia: fear of cancer candescent: glowing hotly cannel: bevel on the edge of a chisel canonicate: the rank or office of a cannon cantatrice: female singer cantle: corner, edge or slice of anything capeline: surgical bandage for the stump of amputated limb; small iron skullcap caple: a horse capriform: goatlike captious: peevish; ready to take offence or find fault carboy: large green bottle encased in wicker cardialgia: heartburn cardophagus: donkey; something that eats thistles carinated: shaped like the prow or keel of a ship caritative: generous; charitable carneous: fleshy; flesh-coloured; like or relating to flesh carnificine: place of execution; office of the executioner carpology: study of fruit cartomancy: telling fortunes using playing cards caryatid: column shaped like female figure casern: barrack or billet for soldiers cassock: close-fitting ankle-length clergyman's garment
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If a cantatrice is a female singer is a cockatrice a male singer?
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cockatrice n. 5cocatrice < OFr cocatris, crocodile < LL calcatrix, she who treads < calcare, to tread < calx, heel: see CALCAR6 1 a fabulous serpent supposedly hatched from a cock‘s egg and having power to kill by a look 2 Bible (KJV) an unidentified deadly serpent
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