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John Galliano won at $25,000 with a black cotton-satin hourglass corset covered with jeweled sprays and stars and faintly suggesting Jane Russell; followed at a great distance by a $2,000 Yoshibi Ishinuma bikini made entirely of swooping black coq feathers; and a Robert Beaulieu bikini made entirely of pale mink, available at a modest $750.
(French coq and Latin gallus both mean the same thing: rooster.)
That is, I read a lot of magazines, pore over a couple of newspapers every day, and watch a good deal of television--particularly Ready, Set, Cook on the TV Food Network, which, admittedly, doesn't help me stay abreast of world affairs, but I now know how to make a hell of a coq au vin!
The French treasures are also somewhat mutilated, queue [XXII,1] is feminine not masculine: tirer le diable par la queue; appuyer sur le champignon means to step on the gas, le champignon being the slang term for accelerator; in vivre comme un coq en pâte there is no acute accent on the e; it is une [not un ] autre paire de manches that the French use for something that is entirely different.
vivre comme un coq en pâté, Lit. to live like a cockerel in pastry: to be in clover