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* '''Victor:''' Victor Hugo, the French novelist who included a lengthy discussion of #waterloo in ''Les Miserables''
  
 
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Revision as of 05:22, 5 October 2010

  • victory
  • Victor: Victor Hugo, the French novelist who included a lengthy discussion of #waterloo in Les Miserables
  • victorieux: (French) victorious
  • fig tree → Matthew 21.19, in which Christ curses a fig tree; according to some traditions, Judas hanged himself on a fig tree
  • fig: (Shakespearean) to insult someone by making an obscene sexual gesture in which the thumb is placed between the next two fingers
  • yew: a species of tree associated with cemeteries
  • fichtre! (French) fuck you!

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