- ... de Cologne - ... de parfum - ... de toilette - “Oh”, they said, “is that water in Paris?” - Fragrance, ... de toilette - French pool filler - French water
- Chat with Esau when Swiss premier leaves country house - Country house - Famous LA hotel, ... Marmont - French castle - French castle has causeways, one-third of which retain heat, surprisingly - French cat given water in French castle? - French country house
- Energy unit - Energy value of a food - Mysterious oracle I count on when dieting - Unit of energy - Unit of heat - Unit of heat energy - The unit of heat according to the French standard; the
amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram
(sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0¡ to 1¡.
Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound.
- Barren regions, especially in the western United States,
where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into
fantastic forms, and much intersected by caons, and where lack of wood,
water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country,
whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres
(bad lands).