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by another ronte: faubourg is, move corvectlj, for-hourg, that por- 

 tion of the city which is /oris, 'outside the gates.' Another, and 

 plausible explanation, is the German vor-bu7y, the ante-urbium ; or,. 

 sub urbium, the suburb, as we speak. 



Our causeway (more accurately but sounding less correctly, causey,). 

 we take from the French chausse, which is a modificatiou of the Italian 

 calzata, i. e. in Late Latin via calceata, a pared way made firm and 

 solid by means of calx, lim.e or grouting. — The English word "ball," 

 for the French bal, has, in the opinion of some philologists, acciden- 

 tally reverted to its original root. Bal is the Italian ballo, which is 

 from the Late-Latin ballare, connected with the Greek ballein, the 

 reference being in the first instance to the movements in playing the 

 game of " ball." There is included in the term the idea of a musical 

 accompaniment, instrumental or vocal : whence ballad as well as ballet. 

 Strictly speaking, "bal" thus corresponds to the Latin saltatio and 

 the Greek orchesis, exercises gymnastic and mimetic, accompanied by 

 expressive music, and having very little in common with the modern 

 amusement of dancing. — Our sailors conveniently interpret as "hur- 

 rycane " the French ouragan, which is said to be a Carib word natu- 

 ralized. This Anglicism, in combination with photograph, &c., has 

 suggested to a United- States' writer the title " Hurrygraphs, ' for a 

 work written, it is to be supposed, in haste. — Maoseen, Malayan for 

 "year" or " season," which is probably the Arabic mousim, "periodi- 

 cal," has been converted by us into the familiar-sounding syllables 

 mon-soon, further vernacularized, by Rushworth (1640), into man- 

 sounds. — We have Anglicized into shagreen the Venetian sagrin, the 

 name applied to the rough skin of the shark, used for purposes of 

 friction and abrasion, itself derived from the Turkish sagri, apjdied to 

 other substances similarly employed. As tribulus, " the teasel," has 

 contributed to the Latin, tribulatio, so a material of rasp-like surface 

 has introduced (since the 13th century) into the French, and even 

 into English, the expressive "chagrin." 



A burlesque French term for what we should calla "jumble" is 



hrouillamini. 



" II y a la-dedans bien du brouillamini." 



— 'Moliere. 



It is a vernacularized word with a Latin verbal termination, having its 



origin in holi Armenii, " boluses of Armenia," " boluses compounded 



of a multiplicity of ingredients," — a cant expression for the thing 



indicated by brouillamini itself. — Again : in French the palate is 



