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  • 111fauteuil — (fô teull, ll mouillées) s. m. 1°   Grand siége à dos et à bras. •   ....Un fauteuil m embarrasse ; Un homme là dedans est tout enveloppé, Je ne me trouve bien que dans un canapé, REGNARD Distrait, III, 2. •   Le fauteuil à bras, la chaise à dos …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 112supple — c.1300, from O.Fr. souple pliant, flexible, from Gallo Romance *supples, from L. supplex (gen. supplicis) submissive, humbly begging, lit. bending, kneeling down, thought to be an altered form of *supplacos humbly pleading, appeasing, from sub… …

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  • 113lightsome — I adj 1. airy, immaterial, incorporeal, bodiless, light, weightless, vaporous, vapory; visionary, phantasmal, chimeral, ethereal, otherworldly, dreamlike; feathery, fluffy, gossamery, gossamer, light as a feather; Ariel like; buoyant, resilient,… …

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  • 114jujitsu — [jo͞o jit′so͞o΄] n. [Jpn jū jutsu, lit., soft art < jū, soft, pliant + jutsu, art] a Japanese system of wrestling in which knowledge of anatomy and the principle of leverage are applied so that the strength and weight of an opponent are used… …

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  • 115FORGIVENESS — FORGIVENESS, the act of absolving or pardoning; the state of being pardoned. In the Bible The biblical concept of forgiveness presumes, in its oldest strata, that sin is a malefic force that adheres to the sinner and that forgiveness is the… …

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