Word: coleur
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...Bohn's Hand-bk. Games 343 The first parcel of cards played, is usually for noir, the second for rouge. 1850 [see INVERSE sb. 3]. 1928 M. CAROL How to play Roulette iv. 56 The even money chances are Rouge or Red, Noir or Black, Coleur [sic] and Inverse. 1964 A. WYKES Gambling vii. 171 (caption) The dealer lays out two rows of cards (le noir and le rouge) until each total 31 or more. Players bet that one or the other row will be nearer to 31 by placing chips on rouge or on noir...
...beauty parlors, on sale in drug stores. Last week the Health Department had condemned "Lash-Lure" and "Di-Lash," had not yet completed analyses of "Coloura," "Ey-Tec" and "Ey-dolize." From reputable physicians the A. M. A. has received reports of damage done by "Louise Norris." "Loris." "Perma Coleur" and "Larieuse." Like all cosmetics, these dyes are now outside Federal control which would be extended to them if & when Congress passes the proposed new Federal Food & Drugs ("Tugwell") Bill...
...nasal vowels an, en, in, on and un. These difficulties are not found to so great an extent in the French of the eleventh century. The u sound did exist then and seemed to offer certain difficulties to the Englishman of the day. But the eu, as in coleur, apparently did not exist. In its place, however, are found two other sounds, one something like o, and the other a dipthongal sound not unlike the first two letters of wet. Mute edid exist, but was invariably pronounced. The old French pronunciation for un and une may have been...
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