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My brother-in-law's tracks are long, due to the size of his feet: feet that made a few dozen aller-retours* last week as they carried their weary worker to-and-fro from our ever-cluttered and always-encumbered patio ... to a great wall along a field of vines.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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My brother-in-law's tracks are long, due to the size of his feet: feet that made a few dozen aller-retours* last week as they carried their weary worker to-and-fro from our ever-cluttered and always-encumbered patio ... to a great wall along a field of vines.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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My brother-in-law's tracks are long, due to the size of his feet: feet that made a few dozen aller-retours* last week as they carried their weary worker to-and-fro from our ever-cluttered and always-encumbered patio ... to a great wall along a field of vines.
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My brother-in-law's tracks are long, due to the size of his feet: feet that made a few dozen aller-retours* last week as they carried their weary worker to-and-fro from our ever-cluttered and always-encumbered patio... to a great wall along a field of vines.
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My brother-in-law's tracks are long, due to the size of his feet: feet that made a few dozen aller-retours* last week as they carried their weary worker to-and-fro from our ever-cluttered and always-encumbered patio... to a great wall along a field of vines.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Faire des aller-retours a pied c fatigant, meme si ma ville n'est pas immense.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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Max and Jackie accomplished several aller-retours, lugging sacks from the car, while I began storing the groceries.
Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007
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Those who oppose anglicisms often do not demonstrate awareness of the etymological history of terms,” Walsh says. “There are many borrowings which are termed aller-retours because they were originally borrowed into English from French and then back again into French, sometimes centuries later.
Why the French have fallen out of cœur with core Chloe Mac Donnell 2025
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Those who oppose anglicisms often do not demonstrate awareness of the etymological history of terms,” Walsh says. “There are many borrowings which are termed aller-retours because they were originally borrowed into English from French and then back again into French, sometimes centuries later.
Why the French have fallen out of cœur with core Chloe Mac Donnell 2025
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