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81performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
82Aretino, Pietro — born April 20, 1492, Arezzo, Republic of Florence [Italy] died Oct. 21, 1556, Venice Italian poet, prose writer, and dramatist. He was celebrated throughout Europe in his time for his bold and insolent literary attacks on the powerful. His fiery… …
83Elssler, Fanny — born June 23, 1810, Vienna, Austria died Nov. 27, 1884, Vienna Austrian ballerina. She studied in Vienna and toured in Europe before making her Paris Opéra debut in 1834. Her warm, spirited style, contrasting with the cool, academic style of the… …
84Liszt, Franz — Hungarian Ferenc Liszt born Oct. 22, 1811, Raiding, Hung. died July 31, 1886, Bayreuth, Ger. Hungarian composer and pianist. Encouraged by his father, who was a talented amateur musician, Liszt developed an early interest in music and began… …
85English words first attested in Chaucer — Contents 1 Etymology 2 List 2.1 Canterbury Tales General Prologue …
86Giovanni Matteo Mario — Sir Giovanni Matteo De Candia, photographed in the 1860s. Giovanni Matteo Mario (October 18, 1810, Cagliari, Sardinia – December 11, 1883, Rome) was an Italian opera singer. The most celebrat …
87CENSURE — En 1828, à une époque où l’on se plaignait amèrement des méfaits de la censure, Benjamin Constant en a fourni une excellente définition: «La censure, violation insolente de nos droits, assujettissement de la partie éclairée de la nation à sa… …
88adulatif — ⇒ADULATIF, IVE, adj. Qui adule, qui a le caractère de l adulation (Ac. Compl. 1842). Synon. de adulateur. Rem. Attesté ds Ac. Compl. 1842 comme appartenant au vx lang. et mentionné ds Ac. 1798 Suppl. 1835 avec les syntagmes génie adulatif,… …
89adulate — (v.) 1777, back formation from ADULATION (Cf. adulation) …
90wheedle — to influence by flattery, 1661, perhaps connected with O.E. wædlian to beg (from wædl poverty ), or borrowed by Eng. soldiers in the 17c. German wars from Ger. wedeln wag the tail, hence fawn, flatter (Cf. ADULATION (Cf. adulation)) …
