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FOURTEEN |
XIV |
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ROMAN |
XIV or MCLXII, ... numerals |
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BABYLONISH |
Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8. |
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LONIS QUATORZE |
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the art or style of
the times of Louis XIV. of France; as, Louis quatorze architecture. |
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FRONDE |
A political party in France, during the minority of Louis
XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party. |
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GIER-EAGLE |
A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut.
xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron
percnopterus). |
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DRAGONNADE |
The severe persecution of French Protestants under
Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and
devastating incursion; dragoonade. |
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CAMISARD |
One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled
against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so
called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore. |
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ALLEMANDE |
A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French
in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces,
like those of Bach and Handel. |
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DELPHINE |
Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin
classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of
Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini). |