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  • adjective impossible to find

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    introuvable - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • French synonyms for "introuvable": perdu (lost), disparu (vanished), envolé (vanished [into thin air]), caché (hidden)

    introuvable - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • French synonyms for "introuvable": perdu (lost), disparu (vanished), envolé (vanished into thin air), caché (hidden)

    introuvable - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • The Council of the Ancients had, however, already decided that a provisional executive commission should be appointed, composed of three members, and was about to name the members of the commission -- a measure which should have originated with the Five Hundred -- when Lucien came to acquaint Bonaparte that his chamber 'introuvable' was assembled.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • -- Library Journal introuvable (in-troo-vable) adjective which (or who) cannot be found, undiscoverable

    introuvable - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • I said, upset at the realization that our star was introuvable.

    introuvable - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • -Library Journal introuvable (in-troo-vable) adjective which (or who) cannot be found, undiscoverable

    introuvable - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • I said, upset at the realization that our star was introuvable.

    introuvable - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • La Revolution introuvable: Reflexions sur les evenements de

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

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  • Immpossible to find; specifically in reference to books or printed ephemera. Also used as a noun.

    August 28, 2007

  • "Introuvable" showed up in this years Scripps' National Spelling Bee.

    June 12, 2008

  • "Introuvable" showed up in this years Scripps' National Spelling Bee.

    June 12, 2008