Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Chien

Entre chien et loup. Dusk, between daylight and lamp-light; owllight.

“The best time to talk of difficult things is entre chien et loup, as the Guernsey folk say.” —Mrs. Edwardes: A Girton Girl, chap. xlvi.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Chien de Jean de Nivelle
Chicken-hearted
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