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The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
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The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
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A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.
Étymologie
Probably short for French Pamphile (“a given name”), special use of man's name.
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vieilliA panorama.
The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.
Étymologie
Probably alteration of panorama.
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vieilliTo pan a camera in order to show a panorama.
In this case the field was laid out in segments, and after the camera had been pammed about ten degrees it was stopped and the whole outfit moved over into the next segment, and so on round for ninety degrees;
The camera man, in turn, when he had filmed the accident, pammed — the outrageous word "pam" means panorama — immediately to the sheriff in the hope that he would shoot.
At one time he ordered a panorama effect, in which the cameras “pammed,” swept from one side to the other, giving a succession of faces at close range.
The mechanism for taking the pictures with these markers on the original film and record can not be operated in quite so simple a manner, since the camera must be left free to be “pammed"—that is, moved about on its tripod to change the field of view.
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Cooking spray.
Étymologie
Generic use of PAM.
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Variante de palmovieilliAlternative form of palmo (“traditional Spanish and Portuguese units of measure”).
Étymologie
From Spanish palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and palmo.
Formes
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- passé
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- participe passé
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- participe présent
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- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
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pam · The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
Pam · A diminutive of the female given name Pamela.Pamela · A female given name originating as a coinage.pamphlet · A small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded…