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.
