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Congé

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“To give a person his congé” is to dismiss him from your service. “To take one’s congé” is to give notice to friends of your departure. This is done by leaving a card at the friend’s house with the letters P.P.C. (pour prendre congé) inscribed on the left-hand corner. (French, donner congé and donner à son congé.)

 

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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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Conclamatum est
Concord is Strength
Concordat
Condign
Condottieri
Confederate States
Confederation of the Rhine
Confession
Confiscate
Confusion Worse Confounded
Congé
Congé dElire
Congleton Bears
Congregationalists
Congreve Rockets
Congreves
Conjugal
Conjuring Cap
Connecticut
Connubialis de Muloibre fecit Apellem
Conqueror