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The Tailor of Panama
Director:John BoormanWriter:John le CarreColumbia Pictures; R; 120 minutesRelease:3/01Cast:Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis Spy thriller The Tailor of Panama takes the 007…Shakespeare In Love
Director: John MaddenWriters: Marc Norman and Tom StoppardMiramax; R; 113 minutesRelease:12/98Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Judi Dench,…Brewer's: Decollete
[da-coal-ta ]. Nothing even décolleté should be uttered before ladies—i.e. bearing the least semblance to a double entendre. Décolleté is the French for a “dress cut low about the bosom…Brewer's: Rambouillet
Hôtel de Rambouillet. The réunion of rank and literary genius on terms of equality; a coterie where sparkling wit with polished manners prevails. The Marquise de Rambouillet, in the…Brewer's: English French
A kind of perversity seems to pervade many of the words which we have borrowed from the French. Thus curate (French vicaire); Vicar (French curé). Encore (French bis). Epergne (French…Brewer's: Beefeaters
Yeomen of the Guard in the royal household, appointed, in 1485, by Henry VII., to form part of the royal train in banquets and other grand occasions. The old theory was that the word means…Brewer's: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: D
E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z D D.O.M. D.T. Da Capo Dab Dab, Din Dabaira Dabbat Dabble Dabchick Dactyl…