Vocab Unit 1 pt 2

Question 1

barrister

Answer 1

a lawyer who handles court cases

Question 2

Château

Answer 2

a french aristocrats country home

Question 3

conciergerie

Answer 3

a prison in paris

Question 4

doll

Answer 4

a disparaging term for women in the 19th century

Question 5

flambeau

Answer 5

torch

Question 6

fortnight

Answer 6

two weeks; fourteen days

Question 7

garret

Answer 7

attic or room on top floor of house or apartment

Question 8

guillotine

Answer 8

heavy blade held up by two posts which is dropped on the victims neck in order to behead the victim

Question 9

hackney-coach

Answer 9

a coach for hire; an older equivalent of a taxi

Question 10

head drawer

Answer 10

man in charge of hotel

Question 11

incarceration

Answer 11

imprisonment

Question 12

jackal

Answer 12

accomplice who assists in menial or slightly disreputable acts

Question 13

letter de cachet

Answer 13

sealed letter, especially from a sovereign, often ordering arbitrary imprisonment

Question 14

mail-coach

Answer 14

before into of railways there were 2 types of coaches on english roads: mail-coach and stage-coach
mail coaches were subsidized by post office, stage was privately owned

Question 15

miller

Answer 15

man whose profession is to grind wheat

usually portrayed as all white bc covered in flour

Question 16

old bailey

Answer 16

old bailey court, central court where criminals were prosecuted

Question 17

pile

Answer 17

long spear

Question 18

postilion

Answer 18

man who rides the near horse to guide the horses drawing a coach

Question 19

punch

Answer 19

spiced fruit beverage w/alcoholic base

Question 20

quartering

Answer 20

antiquated punishment for criminals involving dismembering them into four parts

Question 21

quid

Answer 21

slang for pound (british currency)

Question 22

resurrection-man

Answer 22

person who digs up dead bodies to sell parts of them to scientists
also called resurrectionist

Question 23

saint antoine

Answer 23

district of paris very active in revolution, especially in storming of bastille

Question 24

scrivener

Answer 24

scribe or copier

Question 25

shoe

Answer 25

type of brakes under a carriage

Question 26

snuff

Answer 26

powdered tobacco inhaled through nose

Question 27

solicitor

Answer 27

lawyer who handles wills and estates and most matters not involving a court

Question 28

spectre

Answer 28

ghost or apparition

Question 29

temple bar

Answer 29

london landmark located near tellson’s bank

Question 30

tower of london

Answer 30

state prison of london

Question 31

tumbrill

Answer 31

crude two-wheeled cart used to carry prisoners to be executed in the french revolution

Question 32

turnkey

Answer 32

jailor

Question 33

versailles

Answer 33

city southwest of paris known for the opulent french royal palace built for king louis XIV

Question 34

ward

Answer 34

someone for whom someone else has responsibility, especially financially

Question 35

whitefriars

Answer 35

in dickens time, disreputable district of london

Question 36

wood-sawyer

Answer 36

man who chops wood

Question 37

ancien régime

Answer 37

the pre-revolutionary monarchical, aristocratic rule of france