ATD 849-863

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Page 849

trois-six chasers
French: three-six. Schnapps from Normandy, sometimes legal, sometimes not. Three measures of alcohol to six measures of water.

flâneur
French: man-about-town.

go-devil squibs . . . oil-well torpedos
Explosive charges set off inside a well in order to clear plugging of the formation that interferes with oil flow.

Buen hombre
Spanish: good man.

all ready to explode
The 1908 Mexican revolution.

¡Seguro, ése!
Spanish: for sure!

Page 850

L'Espagnol Clignant
French: The Blinking Spaniard.

mi hijo
Spanish: my son.

Page 851

heliograph
Communication device that reflects sunlight to form a beam, then interrupts the beam to generate a binary signal in Morse or other code.

gregaou
???

bandoleros
Spanish, literally: bandoleer wearers. Bandits, partisans.

Professeur Pivoine
French: Professor Peony.

Page 852

breaches in the Creation
Thematic. Amazing list follows.

Page 853

Zeugnisbüchlein
German: student's pocket report book. Such a book serves as a transcript for university students.

Old Slavonic script
Glagolitic writing; see the excellent annotation to page 252.

Page 854

the image had entered the Arsenale
???

rope-walks
Making rope calls for a room or yard somewhat longer than the end product, called a rope-walk.

pistolieri
Italian: men with pistols.

association football
Called soccer in the U.S. and football everywhere else.

Page 855

Il Squalaccio
The public space;the public square.

Page 856

Attenzione
Italian: attention.

Austriaci
Italian: Austrians.

Page 857

terraferma
Italian: solid ground. The parts of Venice (Mestre, etc.) not built in the Lagoon.

squero
A squero is a workshop for building gondolas.

...a Venetian boat-builder

Page 858

mavrovlaco
Italian: Mauro-Vlach or Morlach. An inhabitant of the western coastal part of the Balkan Peninsula.

Page 859

Ciprianuccio
Nickname for Cyprian stressing his clumsiness.

parruchiere
Italian: wigmaker, hairdresser.

Page 860

Macchè
Italian: no, no way.

Cadorina
Breed of sheep native to the area from Venice north to the mountains, now extinct.

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Page 862

Cimiez
A suburb of Nice, France.

Dalmatian
From Dalmatia, coastal and island part of Croatia.

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obvious from the foregoing
I.e., the baffling development I just finished leads (with some hand-waving) to the following unsupported conclusion.

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