genouillere (zhenolyar)

[F., Genouillère, middle of 13th century. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. du Mobilier français.") with large wings which projected backward on each side of the knee-joint.-2. In fort.: ( a ) The part of the interior slope of the parapet below the sill of an embrasure, serving to cover the lower part of the gun-carriage. (b) The height of the parapet above the banquette in a barbette battery. Genowaie, etc. (and as an existing surname Janeway, Jannaway, Jannay, Janney), R. Carew , Survey of Cornwall (1602), p. 135. Ambrose Grimani, a Genowaie , lying in garrison in the isle and city of Chio. Grimes ton, Goulart, G g 1. ( Nares .) genre (zhon'r), n. [F., kind, genus, mode, style, etc.; particularly in the arts, with a distinct epithet; genus ( gener- ), kind: see genus and gender, n.] 1. Genus; kind; sort; style. [Rare.] The prodigious wealth of our language in beautiful works of this genre is almost unknown. S. Lanier , Sci. of Eng. Verse, p. 245. 2. In painting, specifically, a representation of some phase of common life, as a domestic interior, a rural or village scene, etc. The term is sometimes used in the same sense with reference to sculpture and the drama. In French it is also applied with a descriptive epithet to other kinds of painting, as genre the historical style; genre du paysage, the scape style. In English writing it is most commonly used in combination as a descriptive term, either with or without a hyphen: as, genre pictures; a genre - painter. There are comic and genre pictures of parties. J. F. Clarke, Ten Great Religions, vi. 1. Only within these few centuries has painting been divided into historical, landscape, marine, architectural, genre , animal, still-life, etc. H. Spencer, Universal Progre , p. 22. His subjects, too, were no longer the homely things of the genre -painter. Encyc. Brit ., XXIV. 569. gens (jenz), n.; pl. gentes (jen'tēz). [L., a clan or family (see def.), a race, nation, people, gen in gignere , OL. genere, beget, produce, genus , a race, kind, allied to E. kin and kind : see genus , kin , kind, n.] 1. In ancient Rome, a clan or house embracing several families claiming descent from a common ancestor, united by a common name and by certain religious rites and legal privileges and obligations, but not nece arily by consanguinity: as, the Fabian gens , all bearing the name Fabius; the Julian gens , all named Julius; the Cornelian gens, etc. Hence-2. In historical and ethnological use, a tribe or clan; any community of persons in a primitive state of society constituting a distinct or independent branch of a general aggregate or race. The union of the gentes or nations is temporary and occasional only; when the emergency is over each tribal ruler is independent as before. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 22. There was nothing between the worship of the Household and the worship of the Gens. W. E. Hearn , Aryan Household, p. 141.