marie : Idioms & Phrases


bain-marie

  • noun a large pan that is filled with hot water; smaller pans containing food can be set in the larger pan to keep food warm or to cook food slowly
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Bain`-ma`rie" noun
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F.
Definitions
  1. A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.
Webster 1913

charcot-marie-tooth disease

  • noun a form of neuropathy that can begin between childhood and young adulthood; characterized by weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the hands and lower legs; progression is slow and individuals affected can have a normal life span; inheritance is X-linked recessive or X-linked dominant
    hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy.
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charles andre joseph marie de gaulle

  • noun French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970)
    Charles de Gaulle; de Gaulle; General de Gaulle; General Charles de Gaulle.
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christine marie evert

  • noun United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954)
    Evert; Chrissie Evert; Chris Evert.
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francois marie charles fourier

  • noun French sociologist and reformer who hoped to achieve universal harmony by reorganizing society (1772-1837)
    Charles Fourier; Fourier.
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francois maurice marie mitterrand

  • noun French statesman and president of France from 1981 to 1985 (1916-1996)
    Mitterrand; Francois Mitterrand.
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francois-marie arouet

  • noun French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)
    Arouet; Voltaire.
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isidore auguste marie francois comte

  • noun French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study
    Auguste Comte; Comte.
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joseph marie jacquard

  • noun French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
    Jacquard; Joseph M. Jacquard.
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marie anne charlotte corday d'armont

  • noun French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793)
    Corday; Charlotte Corday.
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marie antoinette

  • noun queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)
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marie charlotte carmichael stopes

  • noun birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
    Stopes; Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes.
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marie curie

  • noun French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
    Curie; Madame Curie; Marya Sklodowska.
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marie dolores eliza rosanna gilbert

  • noun Irish dancer (1818-1861)
    Montez; Lola Montez.
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marie goeppert mayer

  • noun United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for her research on the structure of the atom (1906-1972)
    Mayer.
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marie grosholtz

  • noun French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London (1761-1850)
    Marie Grosholtz; Madame Tussaud; Tussaud.
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marie henri beyle

  • noun French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842)
    Stendhal.
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marie jean antoine nicolas caritat

  • noun French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794)
    Condorcet; Marquis de Condorcet.
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marie jeanne becu

  • noun courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
    Du Barry; Comtesse Du Barry.
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marie joseph paul yves roch gilbert du motier

  • noun French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)
    La Fayette; Marquis de Lafayette; Lafayette.
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marie louise elisabeth vigee-lebrun

  • noun French painter noted for her portraits (1755-1842)
    Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun; Vigee-Lebrun.
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marie stopes

  • noun birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
    Stopes; Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes.
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marie tussaud

  • noun French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London (1761-1850)
    Marie Grosholtz; Madame Tussaud; Tussaud.
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marie-strumpell disease

  • noun a chronic form of spondylitis primarily in males and marked by impaired mobility of the spine; sometimes leads to ankylosis
    ankylosing spondylitis; rheumatoid spondylitis.
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maxmillien marie isidore de robespierre

  • noun French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat (1758-1794)
    Robespierre.
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sault sainte marie

  • noun a town of southern Ontario opposite northern Michigan
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vicomte ferdinand marie de lesseps

  • noun French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894)
    Lesseps; Ferdinand de Lesseps.
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victor-marie hugo

  • noun French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)
    Victor Hugo; Hugo.
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