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François Leclerc du Tremblay (the painting's focal point figure) depicted descending the staircase, by Jean-Léon Gérôme(1873). An éminence grise (French pronunciation: [eminɑ̃s ɡʁiz]) or gray eminence is a powerful decisionmaker or advisor who operates covertly in a nonpublic or unofficial capacity.
The name verdigris comes from the Middle English vertegrez, from the Old French verte grez. According to one view, it comes from vert d'aigre, [12] "green [made by action] of vinegar". The modern French writing of this word is vert-de-gris ("green of grey"), sounding like the older name verdet gris ("grey greenish"), itself a deformation of ...
Gris-gris (/ ˈ ɡ r iː ˌ ɡ r iː /, also spelled grigri, and sometimes also "gregory" or "gerregery") [1] is a Voodoo amulet originating in West Africa which is believed to protect the wearer from evil or bring luck, [2] and in some West African countries is used as a purported method of birth control.
Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]
A mojo (/ ˈ m oʊ dʒ oʊ /), in the African-American spiritual practice called Hoodoo, is an amulet consisting of a flannel bag containing one or more magical items. It is a "prayer in a bag", or a spell that can be carried with or on the host's body.
The surname Gris is a name of ancient French origin. It was a Breton name given to a person with gray hair. The name Gris is derived from the Old French word "gris," which means "gray," and was often given to someone with gray hair. The name Wold is derived from the Old English wald meaning "forest", (cognate of German Wald, but unrelated to ...
Reverso has been active since 1998, with the aim of providing online translation and linguistic tools to corporate and mass markets. [3] [4] In 2013 it released Reverso Context, a bilingual dictionary tool based on big data and machine learning algorithms. [5] In 2016 Reverso acquired Fleex, a service for learning English via subtitled movies.
Its plural in English is "vatniks", or less commonly, "vata", via a direct transliteration of the Russian collective ва́та. Vyshyvatnik ( Russian : вышиватник , romanized : vyshivatnik ) is an equivalent insult for an overly patriotic Ukrainian, and is a blend of "vatnik" and vyshyvanka , a traditional type of Ukrainian ...