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Mostly from French, for word/syllable endings arabesque baroque barque Basque bisque boutique Braque brusque burlesque catafalque cheque (US check) cinque cirque clique critique Dominique discotheque grotesque Junoesque macaque marquee Martinique masque monocoque mosque Mozambique mystique oblique opaque physique picaresque picturesque pique plaque Romanesque Roquefort technique toque torque unique |
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Learning the building blocks of words – sounds, their spellings, and word parts
Great List! I am using it to help me to win the Spelling Bee. I was amazed when I found lorquette here (not on this page, on the previous one). I have googled it but have not found any definition of it. Can anybody help me?
Oh, isn’t that funny, now I can’t find a definition of “lorquette” either. I must have gotten the word from my rhyming dictionary, which doesn’t have definitions, but for unusual patterns I just took its word that the words are words. Time to get the really superduper Oxford dictionary, or ask someone who speaks French I guess
The word lorquette appears once in the book – Lucia Dare by Filia (Sarah Anne Dorsey) – “The gentle- man had stepped into an optician’s, on the Rue de la Paix; he came out, holding a lorquette in his hand.”
I also found the word lorquette repeatedly in jeweler adverts in American newspapers from late 1800s e.g. “WILL SELL AND COMPETE WITH EASTERN PRICES. BELTS, BLOUSE SETS. BAGS, TURTLE COMBS OF SIX DIFFERENT STYLES. OSTRICH FANS. LORQUETTE CHAIN’S, BRACELETS. SKIRT PINS AND ONE HUNDRED DIFFERENT VARIETIES JUST RECEIVED FROM THE MANUFACTURERS.”
I thing it may be an Americanized version of the word Lorgnette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorgnette