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Show j Foreign Words and Phrases Apres nous le deluge. (F.) Ait-er Ait-er us the deluge (attributed to Madame de Pompadour, in reference refer-ence to signs of an approaching revolution). Bordereaux. (F.) A marginal note; a memorandum. Chef-d'oeuvre. (F.) A masterpiece. master-piece. De nihilo nihil fit. (L.) Nothing comes from nothing. En deshabille. (F.) In undress. In hoc signo vinces. (L.) By this sign thou wilt conquer. (Motto (Mot-to of Constantine.) Wie Gewonnen, so zerronnen. (Ger.) As won, so flown; "light come, light go." Ippissima verba (L.) The very-words. |