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  • The different sticks are (in descending point value) cerf, chevreuil, renard, blaireau, and lièvre -- and of course the same animals in German.

    mauvais perdant - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • On se rappellera que Benjamin Franklin mit en évidence l'existence de l'électricité grâce à un cerf-volant et que "go fly a kite" signifie certes "lance un cerf-volant", mais aussi "Casse-toi !"

    Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010

  • Par trop aymer and L'homme qui est, but a few, such as Mon seul espoir and J'ay veu le cerf, are Parisian in style with transparent polyphony and often chordal openings.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • I would add bram cohen, vint cerf, danny sullivan, to just name a few.

    Dan Gillmor Not Happy With Forbes’ Attack on Blogs 2007

  • The different sticks are in descending point value cerf, chevreuil, renard, blaireau, and lièvre -- and of course the same animals in German.

    mauvais perdant - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • In seventeenthcentury France it was largely replaced by grated, boiled staghorn corne de cerf.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • In seventeenthcentury France it was largely replaced by grated, boiled staghorn corne de cerf.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • Earnest_, 5th edition, London, J. Murray, 1842, I observed that the author could not explain the meaning of the French term "cerf-volant," applied to the toy so well known among boys in England as a "kite," and in Scotland as a "dragon."

    Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 Various

  • Sorte d'insecte volant qui porte des cornes dentelées, comme celles du cerf.

    Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 Various

  • "Notice sur l'hirondelle, sur le cerf et sur la cigale" (vol. XII), etc.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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