old maid | a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed, players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid') |
folk dancing folk dance | a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts) |
Orleans siege of Orleans | a long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in |
folk art | genre of art of unknown origin that reflects traditional values of a society |
Greater New Orleans Bridge | twin cantilever bridges across the Mississippi at New Orleans |
folk etymology | a popular but erroneous etymology |
folk song folksong folk ballad | a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture |
folk music ethnic music folk | the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community |
folktale folk tale | a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk |
Tour de France | a French bicycle race for professional cyclists that lasts three weeks and covers about , miles |
folk folks common people | people in general (often used in the plural), they're just country folk, folks around here drink moonshine, the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next |
home folk | folks from your own home town |
family family line folk kinfolk kinsfolk sept phratry | people descended from a common ancestor, his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower |
tribe folk | a social division of (usually preliterate) people |
France French Republic | a republic in western Europe, the largest country wholly in Europe |
Paris City of Light French capital capital of France | the capital and largest city of France, and international center of culture and commerce |
Orleans | a city on the Loire river in north central France, site of the siege of Orleans by the English (-) |
Ile-de-France | a region of north central France including Paris and the area around it |
New Orleans | a port and largest city in Louisiana, located in southeastern Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi river, a major center for offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, jazz originated here among black musicians in the late th century, Mardi Gras is celebrated here each year |
bridesmaid maid of honor | an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding |
folk dancer | someone who does folk dances |
folk poet | a folk writer who composes in verse |
folk singer jongleur minstrel poet-singer troubadour | a singer of folk songs |
folk writer | a writer of folktales |
heroine | the main good female character in a work of fiction |
heroine | a woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds |
King of France | the sovereign ruler of France |
lady's maid | a maid who is a lady's personal attendant |
old maid | the loser in a game of old maid |
maid maiden | an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) |
maid maidservant housemaid amah | a female domestic |
meter maid | policewoman who is assigned to write parking tickets |
spinster old maid | an elderly unmarried woman |
Crawford Joan Crawford | United States film actress (-) |
Didion Joan Didion | United States writer (born in ) |
France Anatole France Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault | French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (-) |
Jeanne d'Arc Joan of Arc Saint Joan | French heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English and to have Charles VII crowned king, she was later tried for heresy and burned at the stake (-) |
Miro Joan Miro | Spanish surrealist painter (-) |
Streisand Barbra Streisand Barbra Joan Streisand | United States singer and actress (born in ) |
Sutherland Joan Sutherland Dame Joan Sutherland | Australian operatic soprano (born in ) |
periwinkle rose periwinkle Madagascar periwinkle old maid Cape periwinkle red periwinkle cayenne jasmine Catharanthus roseus Vinca rosea | commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers |
zinnia old maid old maid flower | any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads |
wild lupine sundial lupine Indian beet old-maid's bonnet Lupinus perennis | stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers |
meadow saxifrage fair-maids-of-France Saxifraga granulata | rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers, Europe |
folk dance | perform a folk-dance |