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1 Bison Futé
Proper name. The Opération Bison Futé is the jocular name given to the rerouting of heavy traffic on Bank Holidays. (The name Bison Futé is intended to suggest a wise Indian chief full of good advice.) -
2 Argus
Proper name. Etre coté à l'Argus (fig.): To have made a name for oneself. ( L'Argus, a motor magazine catering mostly to the trade, gives a year-by-year run-down of second-hand car prices.) -
3 Aspirateur
Proper name. L'Aspirateur (joc.): Nick name given to the Ministère des Finances. -
4 Balajo
Proper name. Le Balajo (corr. le Bal-à-Jo): This famous Paris dance-hall took its name from its original owner. -
5 Barbiturique
Proper name. Le Barbiturique is a famous café situated near the School of Pharmacy in Paris. (There is a double dose of humour in the name. See biture.) -
6 Bibi
Proper name. Bibi Fricotin is the colourful 'likely lad' of the cartoon strip of that name. -
7 Bourse
Proper name. Etre coté en Bourse (fig. & iron.): To have made a name for oneself, to be famous. -
8 Coupole
a The Académie Française. (Members of that august body are sometimes referred to as Coupolards.)b The famous Parisian brasserie of that name in Montparnasse was and is the popular haunt of artists, thinkers and would-be philosophers. -
9 Crapouillot
Proper name. Le Crapouillot was a famous satirical magazine born in the trenches of World War I, remembered long after its extinction because of its mixture of fierce humour and superb thinking. It got its name from a small mortar used by the French troops. -
10 Dieu
Proper name. The plethora of swear locutions invoking the name of God is hardly relevant to a dictionary dealing with modern colloquial French. It is worth noting, however, that expressions involving the mild substitute bleu for dieu seem to be regaining popularity: parbleu, sacrebleu have a quaint comical connotation making them acceptable today. -
11 Fifi
Proper name. Diminutive of the Christian name Delphine. -
12 Institut
Proper name. (abbr. Institut Médico-Légal): L'Institut is an up-market name for the Paris city morgue. -
13 Médor
Proper name. Archetypal dog's name found in many novelettes and children's stories. Suitable English equivalents would be Rover or Fido. -
14 Montparno
Proper name. The Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris and the quartier ofthat name in its vicinity. -
15 Muette
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16 Pétaouchnock
Proper name. 'Thingsville'. (As in the English equivalent, Pétaouchnock is the jocular and ironic name for the kind of back-of-beyond town no-one ever seems to have heard of.) -
17 Sainte-Anne
Proper name. Etre bon pour Sainte-Anne: To be fit for the 'loony bin', to be 'bonkers', to be mad. ( Sainte-Anne is the name of a famous Paris mental hospital. Un échappé de Sainte-Anne is one whose state of mental health is even more perilously poised —both expressions are used with ironic overtones.) -
18 Sainte-Catherine
Proper name, Coiffer la Sainte-Catherine (of woman): To have reached the age of 25 in a state of spinsterhood. ( Sainte-Catherine is the patroness of virgins and on her name-day, the 25th November, it is customary to adorn her statue with a new headdress.) -
19 Saint-Ger
Proper name. (abbr. Saint-Germaindes-Prés): The quartier of that name in Paris. -
20 Saint-Lago
Proper name. ( con. Saint-Lazare):1. The railway station of that name in Paris.2. The Prison Saint-Lazare.
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Proper name — Name Name (n[=a]m), n. [AS. nama; akin to D. naam, OS. & OHG. namo, G. name, Icel. nafn, for namn, Dan. navn, Sw. namn, Goth. nam[=o], L. nomen (perh. influenced by noscere, gnoscere, to learn to know), Gr. o mona, Scr. n[=a]man. [root]267. Cf.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
proper name — index call (title) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
proper name — noun a noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized • Syn: ↑proper noun • Ant: ↑common noun (for: ↑proper noun) • Hypernyms: ↑noun * * * … Useful english dictionary
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proper name — noun a) A proper noun. b) A phrase that names a specific object. Syn: name … Wiktionary
proper name — noun see proper noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
proper name — see proper noun … English dictionary
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proper name — The first or Christian name of a person. 38 Am J1st Name § 4 … Ballentine's law dictionary
proper name — first name … English contemporary dictionary
logically proper name — In Russell s writings of the period between 1905 and 1918, a logically proper name is a term whose true logical role is to refer to an object. A cluster of considerations led Russell to believe that ordinary names function differently, as… … Philosophy dictionary