The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics) - Kate Chopin [147]
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Stingy.
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Lightweight cotton with a small decorative pattern.
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Appetizers (Fr.).
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Short for confabulation, a chat.
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Free spirits (Fr.).
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Fearless soldier (Fr.).
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Windows made of adjustable glass louvers that control ventilation.
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A surly person.
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A pseudonym for the popular Irish writer Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (?1855-1897), whose novels were considered light reading; in 1893 she published Lady Verner’s Flight, a work about an abused wife.
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Mrs. Ward was an English writer of serious fiction concerned with social problems.
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The reference is to Frederick Remington (1861-1909), a popular magazine artist known for his images of the Wild West.
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A line of bold cliffs overlooking the water.
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In free indirect discourse, Pousette’s patois is translated into English in the sentences that follow, which give a series of excuses for her neglect of Athénaïse.
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Poor little dear (Fr.).
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Wallet (Fr.).
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Linen or cotton fabrics for making shirts.
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A type of oyster.
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A whipped-cream drink (Fr.).
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A village in southwest Missouri.
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Suitcase.
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A loose garment (Fr.).
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An agricultural tool set with spikes, used primarily for pulverizing and smoothing the soil.
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God knows (Fr.).
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Embankments for preventing floods.
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Goodness! (Fr.).
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I’m telling you (Fr.).
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A coastal resort in Mississippi.
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A college for training teachers.
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A two-person card game in which each player tries to form various counting combinations of cards.
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An odd game played to determine the winner of a tie.
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An ambrotype is a positive picture made of a photographic negative on glass backed by a dark surface.
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A catalogue of Catholic devotions intended to show that Tante Elodie is a faithful believer—an ironic detail, given her subsequent actions.
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Virgin of Virgins, pray for us. Mother of God, pray (Fr.).
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Who’s there? (Fr.).
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The bottle! (Fr.).
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A variant of Coushatta, a town on the east bank of the Red River and seat of Red River parish.
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A minute portion.
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An infusion made from herbs, believed to have medicinal properties (Fr.).
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A triangular piece of lace or fine fabric worn around the neck or shoulders (Fr.).
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A low-growing fan-leaved palm.
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A gambling game played with two dice.
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A building for storing corn.
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A rising agent, such as yeast.
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Pejorative slang meaning small black children.
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A flat hat.
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Wearing a somewhat low-cut dress.
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Gaudy, brightly colored clothing, an allusion to an African-American tradition in which lavishly dressed couples promenade in competition for a cake.
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A musical instrument that makes a droning sound, played by turning a handle with one hand while pressing keys with the other.