Category: culture

23 entries.

• Accoutrementnoun— Additional items of dress or equipment carried or worn by a person for a particular activity.
• Ambrosianoun— Something that is pleasant or feels good.
• Amuse-bouchenoun— A French culinary term meaning 'mouth amuser'; a small complimentary appetizer offered at some restaurants.
• Androgynynoun— The quality or state of being neither specifically feminine nor masculine; the combination of feminine and masculine characteristics.
• Bon vivantphrase— A person who enjoys a sociable and luxurious lifestyle.
• Carouseverb— To celebrate noisily, often while drinking heavily.
• Dalliancenoun— A casual romantic or sexual relationship.
• De rigueurphrase— Required by etiquette or current fashion.
• Gavotteverb— To move in a showy, pretentious, and attention-seeking manner.
• Hardscrabbleadjective— Marked by poverty, hardship, and a constant struggle to get by.
• Inamoratanoun— A person's female lover.
• Milieunoun— A person's social environment.
• Mirepoixnoun— A French flavor base of slowly cooked diced vegetables, usually onion, carrot, and celery.
• Mishegossnoun— Craziness, nonsense, or absurd behavior (from Yiddish).
• Misogamynoun— A hatred of marriage.
• Niveaunoun— A level or tier, especially of social status or achievement (from French).
• Nouveau richephrase— Newly acquired wealth, typically those perceived as ostentatious or lacking in good taste.
• Omertànoun— A code of silence, especially against informing authorities about organized crime.
• Ouroborosnoun— A serpent or dragon eating its own tail, symbolizing cyclic renewal or eternity.
• Pied-à-terrenoun— a small apartment, house, or room kept for occasional use.
• Pittancenoun— A very small or inadequate amount of money paid to someone.
• Verbotenadjective— Forbidden, especially by an authority.
• Vitaenoun— Resume.