Macadam
Has put an end to revolutions: barricades no longer possible. Nevertheless not so convenient as before.
Letter M
May Bugs (or Cockchafers)
Harbingers of summer. Fine subject for a monograph. Their total extinction is the dream of every Prefet. When referring to them in a speech to the farmers' grange, you must call them "noxious coleoptera."
More from Letter M
Macaroni
When prepared in the Italian style, is served with the fingers.
Machiavelli
Though you have not read him, consider him a scoundrel.
Machiavellian
Word only to be spoken with a shudder.
Mackintosh
Scottish philosopher; invented the raincoat.
Maestro
Italian word meaning Pianist.