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métier – profession, occupation, business ( French )

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Orleens – New Orleans  – the largest city and port on the Mississippi River, founded in 1718 by the French settlers; in 1763 New Orleans was given to the Spanish government, but in 1803 it was returned to France. In the same year Napoleon sold it to the United States

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Saint Looey – St. Louis  – the largest city in Missouri, located on the bank of the Mississippi River; it used to be the Gateway of the West at the time of the first settlers. The Missouri River joins the Mississippi to the north of St. Louis

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Loozeyanner – Louisiana

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cabriesto  – a kind of rope

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the garden of Eden  – in the Bible, an earthly paradise where the first people, Adam and Eve, lived

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fracas  – noise; noisy quarrel

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Alacran – Alacran tartarus, a kind of poisonous insects

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revanche – compensation, satisfaction ( French )

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cantata penserosa  – a short musical work for a choir and a soloist

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hydrophoby  – fear of water

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cavallada – a mare (female horse) ( Spanish )

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mise-en-scène – a scene; view ( French )

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jacalés  – a hut with walls covered with clay

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faro, monté  – the names of card games

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hacienda  – an estate and an estate house in Texas, Mexico and South America ( Spanish )

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the Guadalupe mountains  – the mountains in western Texas and New Mexico

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the Llano Estacado  – a region in the USA on the border of Texas and New Mexico

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Ethiopia  – the country in eastern Africa (1,063,652 square km)

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the Mexican war  – the war between Mexico and the United States in 1846–1848; after the victory, the USA acquired over 1,300,000 square km of Mexican territory

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Scott’s campaign  – a military campaign in the course of Mexican war

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monté-table  – here: a table used for gambling ( French )

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Colt  – Samuel Colt (1814–1868), American firearms manufacturer who perfected and patented a revolver

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corps-d’arm é e – army corps ( French )

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Morisco – Moorish ( Spanish )

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Andalusia  – a historic region in the south of Spain (87,590 square km); the capital is Seville; Andalusian culture was greatly influenced by many centuries of Moorish rule

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Teutonic tongue – a Germanic language; Germanic languages belong to the Indo-European family

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peons  – workmen hired by the day, who worked in the fields

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vaquero – a shepherd ( Spanish )

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Azteca  – the historical land of the Aztec in the northwest of Mexico; in the 15th–16th centuries the Aztec ruled a large empire; their origin is uncertain; after the Spanish conquest the Aztec empire came to an end

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Anahuac  – the part of Aztec Mexico (4,000 square km) where Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, was located

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Phidias  – the Greek sculptor of the 5th century BC who created the impressive images of the Greek gods; he supervised the construction of Parthenon and initiated a building program in Athens

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Praxiteles  – the greatest of the Greek sculptors of the 4th century BC; gentle charm and grace of his works greatly influenced the development of Greek sculpture