BARBUT
Middle Age steel helmet having a T-shaped opening |  |
CLOCHE
Means "bell" in French, but is also used to mean a transparent
glass cover used to protect young plants |  |
COMMODE
Free-standing cupboard/cabinet. Originally holding a chamber pot or washbasin. (from Fr.= "convenient") |  |
CULOTTES
Women's trousers cut to look like a skirt. |  |
CURFEW
Regulation forbidding people to be on the streets after a certain hour.
Originally : French - "Couvre feu" - to cover the fire. In the Middle Ages, it referred to announcing the time to put out lights and cover the fire. |  |
FLÈCHE
Gothic-style steeple or spire (from Fr.="arrow") |  |
KÉPI
French military cap made famous by the French Legion of Honor |  |
LORGNETTE
Eyeglasses mounted on a handle |  |
MANSARD
Roof with two slopes on each side and the storey under such a roof - from the French architect, Francois Mansard, 1598-1666 |  |
PALETTE
A thin oval board with a thumb hole at one end, used by painters to lay and mix colors |  |
PARACHUTE
Umbrella-type apparatus used to descend gently from a great height |  |
POMPOM
Ornamental ball or tuft worn on hat, dress, shoes, etc. |  |
QUEUE
Braid of hair down the back, or a long line of people |  |
REVERS
Part of the front of a garment, especially a coat lapel, turned back to show the face of the lining |  |
TAMBOURINE
Small drum with metal disks, played by shaking it with the hands or knuckles |  |
TUTEUR
A trainer, support trellis for plants |  |
SILHOUETTE
Outline portrait in black (after Etienne de Silhouette, a French Minister of Finance, 1709-67) |  |
VOLUTE
Architecture: spiral or scroll type ornament |  |
VALANCE
Short drapery across top of window or short curtain hanging from frame of bed to floor |  |
