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  • Oh, but it is not only this disgusting confiture, this ... this ordure collant, but his loathsome touch, his foul body and vile breath, his hideous tongue upon me ... ugh!

    Watershed 2010

  • Others from the same family: 'Qu'est-ce que c'est qui est orange et fait un bruit comme un perroquet' 'Une carrotte'; 'Qu'est-ce que c'est qui est marron et collant' 'Un baton'

    Making Light: Open thread 137 2010

  • The feminine article is mostly baggy but sometimes, as in India, collant-tight.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • J'part donc sur un prochain achat de collant a rayure ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Hier j'suis allé à St Diz 'noooon pas pour voir Bertrand 2 le collant (oui je connais plein de bertrand moi alors c un peu chiant d'ou le 2 a coté du prenom!!) de toute facon pour les activtés que j'ai avec lui laissez tomber ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • Oh, but it is not only this disgusting confiture, this ... this ordure collant, but his loathsome touch, his foul body and vile breath, his hideous tongue upon me ... ugh!

    Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

  • Far better was the fashion of the middle ages, when the trouser became a real pantaloon -- _a pantalon_ collant, as modern artists call it, and when the full symmetry of the limb was displayed to the utmost advantage.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

  • How it may be for campaigning, you can pronounce; but for dancing, the pantalon collant is the perfect uniform.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • How it may be for campaigning, you can pronounce; but for dancing, the pantalon collant is the perfect uniform.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • How it may be for campaigning, you can pronounce; but for dancing, the pantalon collant is the perfect uniform.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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