a person of Native Canadian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry ; M é tis
gracilis
a thin muscle on the inner thigh
Ndebele
a member of a people of Zimbabwe
Les Six
a group of six young composers in France, who from about 1916 formed a temporary association as a result of interest in neoclassicism and in the music of Satie and the poetry of Cocteau . Its members were Darius Milhaud , Arthur Honegger , Francis Poulenc , Georges Auric , Louis Durey, and Germaine Tailleferre
Český Les
a mountain range between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany . Highest peak : Arber , 1457 m (4780 ft)
Les Cayes
a port in SW Haiti , on the S Tiburon Peninsula . Pop: 45 904 (1995)
Les Gueux
a league of Dutch and Flemish patriots , composed chiefly of nobles and formed in 1566 to resist the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition into the Netherlands
Les Lanciers
a quadrille for eight or sixteen couples
Aix-les-Bains
a town in E France : a resort with sulphurous springs . Pop: 25 732 (1999)
tous-les-mois
a large widely cultivated plant, Canna edulis, of the Caribbean and South America, having purplish stems and leaves, bright red flowers and edible tubers : family Cannaceae
Évian-les-Bains
a resort and spa town in E France, on Lake Geneva opposite Lausanne ; noted for its bottled mineral waters . Pop: 8064 (2006)
pour encourager les autres
in order to encourage the others: often used ironically