Dante Dante Alighieri (1265–1321); Italian poet: wrote The Divine Comedy.
darky an African-American; a derogatory or contemptuous term.
Daudet Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), a French novelist of the naturalist school.
dedicated to the Blessed Virgin committed by their parents at birth to become nuns.
dispose to arrange (matters); settle or regulate (affairs).
drag a type of private stagecoach of the nineteenth century, with seats inside and on top, drawn by four horses.
eiderdown a quilt stuffed with the soft, fine breast feathers or down of the eider duck.
Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882); U.S. essayist, philosopher, and poet.
en bon ami as a friend.
en bonne ménagère as a good housewife.
entre-mets a dish served between the main courses or as a side dish.
Esplanade Street a mansion-lined street in New Orleans, populated primarily by upper-class Creoles.
ether the upper regions of space; clear sky.
fashion-plate a fashionably dressed person.
frescoing painting with watercolors on wet plaster.
friandises delicacies.
futures a contract for a specific commodity bought or sold for delivery at a later date.
