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VThe roses bloom at Malmaison. And not only roses. Tulips, myrtles, geraniums, camelias, rhododendrons, dahlias, double hyacinths. All the year through, under glass, under the sky, flowers…Brewer's: Napiers Bones
A method invented by Baron Napier, of Merchiston, for shortening the labour of trignometrical calculations. Certain figures are arranged on little slips of paper or ivory, and simply by…Brewer's: Napping
To catch one napping. To find a person unprepared or off his guard. (Anglo-Saxon, hnappung, slumbering.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Nappy AleNapoleon…Brewer's: Chauvin
A blind idolator of Napoleon the Great. The name is taken from Les Aides de Camp, by Bayard and Dumanoir, but was popularised in Charet's Conscrit Chauvin. Chauvinism. A blind idolatry of…Brewer's: Corinth's Pedagogue
Dionysios the younger, on being banished a second time from Syracuse, went to Corinth and became schoolmaster. He is called Dionysios the tyrant. Hence Lord Byron says of Napoleon- Corinth…Brewer's: Corps Legislatif
(French). The lower house of the French legislature. The first assembly so called was when Napoleon I. substituted a corps legislatif and a tribunal for the two councils of the Directory,…Brewer's: Armi da
One of the prominent female characters in Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. She was a beautiful sorceress, with whom Rinaldo fell in love, and wasted his time in voluptuous pleasure. Two…Brewer's: Badinguet
A nickname given to Napoleon III. It was the name of the workman whose clothes he wore when he contrived to escape from the fort of Ham, in 1846. “If Badinguet and Bismarck have a row…Brewer's: Dionysius
(the younger) being banished a second time from Syracuse, retired to Corinth, where he turned schoolmaster for a living. Posterity called him a tyrant. Byron, in his Ode to Napoleon,…Brewer's: Guides
(pron. gheed). Contraction of guidons. A corps of French cavalry which carries the guidon, a standard borne by light horse-soldiers, broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other. The…Trending
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