Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lever on the upper part of a loom, used to lift the harness.
- noun One who buys and sells; a dealer: as, a horse-couper.
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Examples
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A quick aside: my Fr/Eng dictionary gives these words for "neuter" - chatrer and couper (ouch!)
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A quick aside: my Fr/Eng dictionary gives these words for "neuter" - chatrer and couper ouch!
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- Jean-Philippe, on ne peut pas continuer à se couper de tout le monde comme ça …
une pièce montée 2008
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- Jean-Philippe, on ne peut pas continuer à se couper de tout le monde comme ça …
l’oeil du cyclone 2008
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Terms & Expressions: être dans le brouillard = to be in the dark (unaware) brouillard "à couper au couteau" (fog "to cut with a knife") = peasouper (or very thick fog)
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Terms & Expressions: être dans le brouillard = to be in the dark (unaware) brouillard "à couper au couteau" (fog "to cut with a knife") = peasouper (or very thick fog)
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Terms & Expressions: être dans le brouillard = to be in the dark (unaware) brouillard "à couper au couteau" (fog "to cut with a knife") = peasouper (or very thick fog)
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Garber had previously let on that he thought the Ottawa bid was "à couper le souffle" literally - take your breath away, and will be visiting again shortly, so I wouldn't write it off entirely.
Wait...you mean that whole Ottawa thing wasn't a joke? Duane Rollins 2009
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Les autorités pénitentiaires ont fait couper l'eau, et à la différence de ses co détenus, il ne peut sortir pour se laver ailleurs.
Tunisia: Relentless Campaign Against Imprisoned Blogger and Journalist Slim Boukhdhir 2008
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My father, rest his saul, was a horse-couper, and used to say he never was cheated in a naig in his life, saving by a west-country whig frae
The Monastery 2008
hernesheir commented on the word couper
This old term for a dealer or seller has lent its name to the English occupational surname Couper.
May 10, 2011