Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pail-shaped vessel belonging to a dinner-service, made by English potters in the eighteenth century.
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Examples
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Hear the word "seau" pronounced: Download seau. wav
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Hear the word "seau" pronounced: Download seau. wav
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Hear the word "seau" pronounced: Download seau. wav
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Hear the word "seau" pronounced: Download seau.wav
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Hear the word "seau" pronounced: Download seau.wav
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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"Si, je sais bien que tous les matins elles balayent leurs escaliers puis y jettent un seau d'eau."
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"Si, je sais bien que tous les matins elles balayent leurs escaliers puis y jettent un seau d'eau."
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So, yes, in blue, I'm sure now it is a plumbago, but the red flowers "dans le seau" (in the bucket) are not busy lizzies - and not geraniums either.
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"Si, je sais bien que tous les matins elles balayent leurs escaliers puis y jettent un seau d'eau."
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I've also heard it this way "cinq raisins/un seau" (five grapes fill one bucket) this last "story" must have been told by a Marseillais ... who might have just as well said "five sardines to one bucket ..." you know, the old "sardine that blocked the port entrance" ...
cranewang commented on the word seau
le seau, bucket 桶。
May 7, 2008