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picayune 3. Something of very little value; a trifle: not worth a picayune. [Louisiana French picaillon, small coin, from French, from Provençal picaioun, from picaio, money, perhaps from Old Provençal piquar, to jingle, clink, from Vulgar Latin *piccāre, to pierce; see pique.] pic′a·yun′ish adj.
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- Cre•ole /ˈkrioʊl/USA pronunciation n. 1  Language Varieties[countable] a French-speaking person of Louisiana descended from the earliest French and Spanish settlers. 2  Linguistics[countable; usually: creole] a pidgin language that has become the native language of a speech community.Compare pidgin.
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- Lajaunie Name Meaning. Probably a respelling of French Lajeunie, which Morlet describes as a topographic name relating to the estate of a family called Jeune.
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Creole Cre·ole. n. 1. A person of European ancestry born in the West Indies or Spanish America. 2. a. A person descended from or culturally related to the original French settlers of the southern United States, especially Louisiana. b. The French dialect spoken by these people. 3.
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- Picardy (French: Picardie) is a historic region in northern France that is now within the departments of Aisne, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme. Amiens was the region's capital. On Picardy's fertile soils they grow wheat, sugar beets and fodder crops.
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prune Origin and Etymology of prune. Middle English prouynen, probably ultimately from Old French prooignier, alteration of *porrooignier, from por- completely (from Latin pro-) + rooignier to cut, prune, from Vulgar Latin *rotundiare to cut around, from Latin rotundus round — more at pro-, rotund.
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Definition of âcreoleâ - English Dictionary Creole noun (LANGUAGE) › [ C or U ] an American or Caribbean language that is a combination of a European language and another language and is a main language in parts of the southern US and the Caribbean.
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Picayune, MS (Mississippi) Houses and Residents Median gross rent in Picayune, MS in 2016: $413. Housing units in Picayune with a mortgage: 1,216 (33 second mortgage, 26 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan) Houses without a mortgage: 958. Median household income for houses/condos with a mortgage: $55,515. Median household income for apartments without a mortgage: $34,439
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prune The definition of a prune is a partially dried plum, or is slang for an ill-tempered and unpleasant person. An example of a prune is a Casselman. An example of a prune is someone who gets angry when told to stop playing in the traffic. To prune is defined as to cut off the excess or dead parts.
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- missive meaning, definition, what is missive: an official, formal, or long letter: . Learn more.
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- Picardy (French: Picardie) is a historic region in northern France that is now within the departments of Aisne, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme.
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- Archaic. to preen. [1350–1400; Middle English prunen, pruynen, proy(g)nen < Old French poroign-, present s. of poroindre=por- (< Latin pro- pro-1) + oindre to anoint (< Latin unguere); see preen1] 1  amputate - Comes from Latin ambi, around, and putare, to prune, trim..  dried plum - Another name for a prune.
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- Origin of JAUNE BRILLANT. French jaune brillant, literally, brilliant yellow. This word doesn't usually appear in our free dictionary, but the definition from our premium Unabridged Dictionary is offered here on a limited basis. Note that some information is displayed differently in the Unabridged. any of several yellow pigments used especially as artists' colors: such as a: naples yellow 1a b: cadmium sulfide either alone or in a mixture (as a cadmium yellow).
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- Definition of pensive. 1  1 : musingly or dreamily thoughtful a pensive young poet. 2  2 : suggestive of sad thoughtfulness her face had the pensive mournfulness of a seraph in an old sad painting — Herman Wouk.
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impunity impunity definition: Impunity is defined as freedom from punishment or harm. (noun) When you steal something and you do not go to jail or face any consequences, this is an example of when you steal with impunity....
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Praline Praline (US /ˈpreɪliːn/ ; UK /ˈprɑːliːn/) is a form of confectionery containing at a minimum nuts and sugar; cream is a common third ingredient.
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- impunity definition, meaning, what is impunity: freedom from punishment or from the unpleasant results of something that has been done: . Learn more.
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- citrus. pl. citrus or cit·rus·es. noun. 1  Any of various evergreen, usually spiny shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus and other genera in the family Rutaceae, such as the grapefruit, lemon, and orange, native to South and Southeast Asia and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits with a leathery aromatic rind. 2  The fruit of any of these plants.
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Picayune, MS (Mississippi) Houses and Residents Median gross rent in Picayune, MS in 2016: $413 Housing units in Picayune with a mortgage: 1,216 (33 second mortgage, 26 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan) Houses without a mortgage: 958 Median household income for houses/condos with a mortgage: $55,515
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- St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office. I received a phone call today from the publisher of The Times Picayune, David Francis. He apologized for the publishing of the distasteful, racially divisive cartoon, and admitted it was inappropriate.
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sanguine The definition of sanguine is someone or something the color of blood or a reddish color. An example of sanguine is rosy cheeks. of the color of blood; ruddy: said esp. of complexions.
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pic pic m (oblique plural pis, nominative singular pis, nominative plural pic) a sharp point or spike. Descendants . Middle French: pic. French: pic
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Prison-Industrial Complex: Definition, Facts & Statistics The Prison Industrial Complex, or PIC, is: An arrangement made by the government with foreign countries to send some of our prisoners across the border A trend that has developed over recent decades in which the state and federal government turns the managing of some of its prisons over to private corporations
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palm Definition of palm. 1 : any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves. 2 : a leaf of the palm as a symbol of victory or rejoicing; also : a branch (as of laurel) similarly used.
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- Definition of JAUNE BRILLANT. : any of several yellow pigments used especially as artists' colors: such as a: naples yellow 1a b: cadmium sulfide either alone or in a mixture (as a cadmium yellow). any of several yellow pigments used especially as artists' colors: such as a: naples yellow 1a b: cadmium sulfide either alone or in a mixture (as a cadmium yellow).
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Petunia Petunia is genus of 35 species of flowering plants of South American origin, closely related to tobacco, cape gooseberries, tomatoes, deadly nightshades, potatoes and chili peppers; in the family Solanaceae.ome botanists place the plants of the genus Calibrachoa in the genus Petunia, but this is not accepted by others. Petchoa is a hybrid genus derived from crossing the genetically similar Calibrachoa and Petunia.