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1 a leotard 8x

2 the guillotine 4x

3 nicotine 4x

4 Australia 4x

5 Braille 4x

6 Tobacco Road 3x

7 the Amish 3x

8 souvenir 3x

9 Salmonella 3x

10 Pompadour 3x

11 Pedigree 3x

12 palace 3x

13 pachyderm 3x

14 ketchup 3x

15 doily 3x

16 Diesel 3x

17 corpulent 3x

18 cologne 3x

19 chauvinism 3x

20 blood 3x

21 an easel 3x

22 alphabet 3x

23 a loupe 3x

24 a cruller 3x

25 a tuxedo 3x

26 white 3x

27 wine 2x

28 Vaudeville 2x

29 utopia 2x

30 toast 2x

31 the tongue 2x

32 the stomach 2x

33 the pancreas 2x

34 the eye 2x

35 tennis 2x

36 ten 2x

37 tea 2x

38 tangerine 2x

39 syntax 2x

40 sugar 2x

41 suede 2x

42 spaniel 2x

43 Soccer 2x

44 smack 2x

45 sleep 2x

46 skis 2x

47 Sister 2x

48 shrapnel 2x

49 shillelagh 2x

50 shiatsu 2x

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A French aerialist gave us this name for a tight-fitting one-piece worn today by everyone from dancers to pro wrestlers

a leotard

This execution device was named for a French doctor who advocated its use, not its inventor

the guillotine

This chief constituent of tobacco was named for a French ambassador to Portugal

nicotine

Just under 3 million square miles, it gets its name from a Latin phrase that translates to "unknown southern land"

Australia

A "W" was added to his raised letter alphabet so that it could be used in English

Braille

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