Crossword-Solution: NUQUE 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Sans dire un mot, il se contenta, pour lui faire sentir qu'il l'aimait, de poser sa petite main sur la nuque blonde de Line.

While chatting together, we saw at some distance, against a background formed by the Belgian camp, Princess Salm-Salm, in her gray-and-silver uniform, sitting her horse like a female centaur--truly a picturesque figure, with her white couvre-nuque glistening under the tropical sun.

Aucun joug n'a ployé ma nuque inasservie, Et dans la liberté que lui fait sa vertu, Voici l'homme qui s'est lui-même revêtu Du pouvoir de juger et d'attester sa vie.

How irresistibly attractive she was! The exact type he admired; not too intellectual-looking, just soft and round and babyish; there was one little curl on her snowy _nuque_ that he longed to kiss there and then.

Under the painting was the following terse epigram:-- "Passans, contemplez le malheur D'Absalom pendu par la nuque; Il aurait évité ce malheur, S'il eut porté une perruque." The lines lose some of their piquancy when rendered into English as follows:-- "The wretched Absalom behold, Suspended by his flowing hair: He might have 'scaped this hapless fate Had he chosen a wig to wear." THE BARBER'S SHOP The old-fashioned barber has passed away.