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mes mères: "my mothers" — Marie's habitual phrase for Maman and her aunt Dina Babanina, who jointly managed her upbringing. ↩
bourre de soie: coarse silk wadding or waste silk, a rough-textured fabric. ↩
Orlando: Orlando Furioso (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto, the great Italian Renaissance epic poem. Marie reads it in the original Italian. ↩
Vaticinium (Latin): prophecy, oracle. Marie connects the word "Vatican" to the Latin for "place of prophecy," displaying her classical education. ↩
barbouilleur: lit. "dauber" — one who paints badly; implies he is an amateur painter as well as a doctor. ↩