middleweight—a boxer between a junior middleweight and a super middleweight, with a maximum weight of 160 pounds.
Princeton—an Ivy League university located in the town of Princeton, in central New Jersey.
featherweight—a boxer between a junior featherweight and a junior lightweight, with a maximum weight of 126 pounds.
prepped—attended a preparatory school.
miniature-painter—a painter of very small paintings, especially portraits, done on ivory, vellum, and so on.
the Coast—the West Coast of the United States.
a review of the Arts—a journal, perhaps published quarterly and probably containing fiction, poetry and criticism.
Carmel, California . . . Provincetown, Massachusetts—a town on the California coast north of Los Angeles, and a town at the tip of Cape Cod. Traditionally, both towns have welcomed artists and writers.
L’Avenue’s—a Parisian restaurant.
Café de Versailles—a Parisian café.
fines—(French) brandies.
Strasbourg—a city and port in northeastern France, on the Rhine.
Alsace—a historical region of northeastern France, under German control from 1871 to 1919.
Bruges—French name for a city in northwestern Belgium.
Ardennes—a wooded plateau in northeastern France, southern Belgium, and Luxembourg; the scene of heavy fighting in World War I.
Senlis—a town in northern France, northeast of Paris.
Grand Cerf—a hotel in or near Senlis, apparently.
courts—tennis courts.
kiosque—(French) a small structure open at one or more sides.
