bouille

“Buy my coal-mine shares,” shouts Robert; “gold mines, silver mines, diamond mines, ‘sont de la pot-bouille de la ratatouille en comparaison de ma houille.’”

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Nothing can be more parsimonious than the oeconomy of these people: they live upon soupe and bouille, fish and sallad: they never think of giving dinners, or entertaining their friends; they even save the expence of coffee and tea, though both are very cheap at Boulogne.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

There is a keen supervision of food products in France, by governmental inspection and control, and one is certain of what he is getting when he buys his _filet_ at the butcher's, and if he patronizes hotels and restaurants of an approved class he is equally sure that he is eating beef in his _bouille_ and mutton in his

The Automobilist Abroad

Their dinner consisted of four dishes of different soups, each garnished with two young paroquets, a large dish of bouille that weighed two hundred weight, two roasted monkeys of a delicious flavor, three hundred hummingbirds in one dish, and six hundred flybirds in another; some excellent ragouts, delicate tarts, and the whole served up in dishes of rock-crystal.

Candide 1918

De harengs saurs, de peaux de moutons et de bouille.

The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

The egg-gatherers having been now several hours engaged, and again become almost as hungry as when first cast upon the shore, once more kindled a fire, set the huge shells upon it, and using the one as a boiling-pot, and the other as a frying-pan, prepared themselves a meal of two courses -- _oeuf bouille_ and _omelette_.

The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850

And here let me observe that a Frenchman eats his _soup_ and _bouille_ at twelve o'clock, drinks only _with_, not _after_ his dinner, and then mixes water with his _genuine_ wine; he lives in a fine climate, where there is not as with us, for six weeks together, easterly winds, which stop the pores, and obstruct perspiration.

A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755

(rouler plein pot) un pot à bière le pot d'échappement le pot-au-feu le pot-de-vin le pot-de-vinier poule au pot le pot aux roses le pot de yaourt le pot au noir la pot-bouille (may be an old term ...) le pot à feu un pot d'accueil

pot - French Word-A-Day 2008

(rouler plein pot) un pot à bière le pot d'échappement le pot-au-feu le pot-de-vin le pot-de-vinier poule au pot le pot aux roses le pot de yaourt le pot au noir la pot-bouille (may be an old term ...) le pot à feu un pot d'accueil

French Word-A-Day: 2008

(rouler plein pot) un pot à bière le pot d'échappement le pot-au-feu le pot-de-vin le pot-de-vinier poule au pot le pot aux roses le pot de yaourt le pot au noir la pot-bouille (may be an old term ...) le pot à feu un pot d'accueil

French Word-A-Day: 2008