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Entre chien et loup. Dusk, between daylight and lamp-light; owl-light.

“The best time to talk of difficult things is entre chien et loup, as the Guernsey folk say.”—Mrs. Edwardes: A Girton Girl, chap. xlvi.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Chiar-oscuro [pronounce ke-ar-ros-ku-ro]
Chibiabos
Chibouque (A)
Chic
Chichivache
Chick-a-biddy (A)
Chicken (plural chickens)
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Chien de Jean de Nivelle (Le)
Child
Child of God (A)
Child of the Cord
Childe
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Children
Chilenos
Chilian
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