portugaises

Les pesos espagnols et les pièces portugaises de huit réals les anglophones connaissent bien les “pieces of eight”, dont il était question dans les histoires de pirates étaient à cette époque aussi appelés "dollars", car ils avaient un poids, un aspect et une valeur similaires.

Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010

I closed up the story in the notebook and put it in my inside pocket and I asked the waiter for a dozen portugaises and a half-carafe of the dry white wine they had there.

Book Excerpt: ‘A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition’ 2009

First she took out twenty portugaises, still new, struck in the reign of John

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

They included Héloise, and Mariana Alcoforado, who wrote the famous Lettres portugaises and turned out to be an enclosed nun but a French literary hack.

An Affair to Remember Annan, Gabriele 1996

I closed up the story in the notebook and put it in my inside pocket and I asked the waiter for a dozen portugaises and a half-carafe of the dry white wine they had there.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

Michel quarter and after the oysters, expensive flat faintly coppery marennes, not the familiar, deep, inexpensive portugaises, and a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé, began to lead up to it delicately.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

Michel quarter and after the oysters, expensive flat faintly coppery marennes, not the familiar, deep, inexpensive portugaises, and a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé, began to lead up to it delicately.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

I closed up the story in the notebook and put it in my inside pocket and I asked the waiter for a dozen portugaises and a half-carafe of the dry white wine they had there.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

I closed up the story in the notebook and put it in my inside pocket and I asked the waiter for a dozen portugaises and a half-carafe of the dry white wine they had there.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

Michel quarter and after the oysters, expensive flat faintly coppery marennes, not the familiar, deep, inexpensive portugaises, and a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé, began to lead up to it delicately.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992