Round 3582: Find the right HOUPPELANDE

[Hugo Kornelis]

Hi all!

My apologies for the issues with my mail host. I really hope that I now have received all your mails.

We have a collection of eleven fine definitions, all of them credible, yet not all correct. In fact, only one of these is from the dictionary. Your task (if you are not DQ) is to identify which. And you get two guesses for this.

Since I am out tomorrow evening, I had to choose between a short-ish or a long-ish deadline. I picked the latter, so you have over 31 hours to pick your favorites - link.

1    a smokeless tobacco product placed under the upper lip.
2    a low and marshy or frequently flooded area of land.
3    a very early version of a hoop-skirt.
4    a traditional Alpine herding song.
5    a dormant bud casing that forms in late autumn, protecting certain perennials from frost damage until spring. 
6    an act or dance by medieval jesters to distract grumpy monarchs.
7    a chant of support or encouragement at bullfights in southwest France.
8    (in the Middle Ages) a robe or long tunic, belted or with a fitted bodice, usually having full trailing sleeves and often trimmed or lined with fur.
9    a dance of Dutch origin, popular in northern England during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
10    a thick, wheat noodle, traditionally eaten with a cream sauce.
11    traditional Polish Christmas cookies whose primary ingredients are butter, flour, powdered sugar, and walnuts.

Good luck!
Hugo

[Paul Keating]

I confirm my DQ.

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Paul Keating

Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

[Judy Madnick]

6    an act or dance by medieval jesters to distract grumpy monarchs (although I question the use of "grumpy")

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9    a dance of Dutch origin, popular in northern England during the 18th and early 19th centuries.

 

Judy Madnick  

[Mike Shefler]

Hi Hugo,

I don't see my def in your list (sent to you by private message from this group). I'll vote for 3 and 8.

--Mike

[Chowie]

4 and 9 please

~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

​"For we cannot do anything against the truth, 

but only for the truth​." 

II Corinthians 13:8

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[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 2 and 11.

-- Eric

[Tim Bourne]

2 and 4, please, with apologies for not having got round to sending a definition myself.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Glenn Thomas Davis]

I'll try 2 and 10.

—Glenn

. . .

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

—Plutarch

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[Tim Lodge]

8 and 10.

                8    (in the Middle Ages) a robe or long tunic, belted or with a fitted bodice, usually having full trailing sleeves and often trimmed or lined with fur.

               10    a thick, wheat noodle, traditionally eaten with a cream sauce.

-- Tim L

[Shani Naylor]

I'll vote 2 & 10.

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[Tony Abell]

I'll vote for 1 and 2:

[nancygoat]

None very believable, including mine.

1 and 4, please.

Nancy

[Hugo Kornelis]

I'm sorry, Mike. Not sure what went wrong. I don't see it in my mailbox, and I have not seen it in my spam quarantine.

2 DPs for you.

Op 24-9-2025 om 15:51 schreef 'Mike Shefler' via Dixonary:

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[Efrem Mallach]

I'll try 2 and 8.

Efrem

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On Sep 24, 2025, at 9:25 AM, Hugo Kornelis <hu...@perFact.info> wrote:

Hi all!

My apologies for the issues with my mail host. I really hope that I now have received all your mails.

We have a collection of eleven fine definitions, all of them credible, yet not all correct. In fact, only one of these is from the dictionary. Your task (if you are not DQ) is to identify which. And you get two guesses for this.

Since I am out tomorrow evening, I had to choose between a short-ish or a long-ish deadline. I picked the latter, so you have over 31 hours to pick your favorites - link.

2    a low and marshy or frequently flooded area of land.