Damoy's a Montparnasse café.
darb a person or thing regarded as remarkable or excellent.
death mask a cast of a person's face taken soon after death.
Dempsey Jack, born William Harrison Dempsey (1895–1983); U.S. professional boxer.
depart (French) start (of the race).
desencajonada (Spanish) releasing.
diligence a public stagecoach, especially as formerly used in France.
Dites garçon, un pernod (French) Tell the waiter, a pernod.
drag (Slang) influence that gains special or undeserved favors; pull.
Dred Scott case a controversial U.S. Supreme court decision (1857) that denied the claim of a U.S. black slave to be free as a result of living in free territory.
drygoods cloth, cloth products, thread, and so on.
duster a lightweight coat worn to protect the clothes from dust, as formerly in open automobiles.
dysentery any of various intestinal inflammations characterized by abdominal pain and frequent and intense diarrhea with bloody, mucous feces.
encierro (Spanish) enclosure.
Es muy flamenco (Spanish) It is very flamenco
Escorial a huge quadrangle of granite buildings near Madrid, built in the sixteenth century by Philip II of Spain; it encloses a palace, a church, a monastery, and so on.
esta ciudad (Spanish) this town.
Estella, Sanguesa towns in Navarra.
featherweight a boxer between a junior featherweight and a junior lightweight, with a maximum weight of 126 pounds.
fiacre (French) hackney-coach, cab.
file that line he got off this morning report on the news conference mentioned earlier.
fine à l'eau (French) brandy and water.
fines (French) brandies.
fire-gaps avenues through the woods created by cutting down trees, so as to discourage the spread of forest fires.
fistula an abnormal passage from an abscess, cavity, or hollow organ to the skin or to another abscess, cavity, or organ.
Flamand (French) Flemish.
Flemish of Flanders or its people, language, or culture.
fly-book a book-like case to hold artificial fishing flies.
fonda (Spanish) inn.
Fontainbleau a town in northern France, near Paris; the site of a palace of former kings of France.
football soccer.
ford a shallow place in a stream or river where one can cross by wading or riding on horseback, in an automobile, and so on.
Ford Henry (1863–1947); U.S. automobile manufacturer.
Fordham a Jesuit university located in the Bronx, New York.
Foyot's a Parisian restaurant.
franc the basic monetary unit of France.
Frankie Fritsch a college football star of the 1920s known as "the Fordham Flash."
