Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crown: a French word used in English in some special senses.
- noun A French coin. The couronne d'or, or gold crown, coined about 1340. and worth about $3.50. The ėcu à la couronne, worth about $2.67 when first coined in 1384: but successive issues were lighter, and during the fifteenth century the usual value was $2.20. The denier à la couronne and gros à la couronne, coins of silver or billon, worth from 2 to 7 United States cents.
- noun A vegetable tracing-paper, 14 × 10 inches in size.
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Examples
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I just visited Wild Yeast and saw your gorgeous couronne.
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J'au juste eu droit a ma couronne de la part du patron!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009
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Sinon, vous ai-je dit que ma couronne etait pour la enieme fois tombée?
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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He had gathered a library of devotional volumes: the Fleurs des sainctz, the Pratique de la perfection chrestienne, the Triple couronne de la bienheureuse Vierge, the Chroniques et instruction du père Sainct-François.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Allez trouver des gens qui font des caries sur des couronne vous?
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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Prominent among them were the Fleurs des Sainetz, La Triple couronne de la bienheureuse Vierge, a Chronique et instruction du père Sainct-François, a collection of Figures des Pères Hermites, a handbook on the Pratique de la Perfection chrestienne, and other books of that genre.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Prominent among them were the Fleurs des Sainetz, La Triple couronne de la bienheureuse Vierge, a Chronique et instruction du père Sainct-François, a collection of Figures des Pères Hermites, a handbook on the Pratique de la Perfection chrestienne, and other books of that genre.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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He had gathered a library of devotional volumes: the Fleurs des sainctz, the Pratique de la perfection chrestienne, the Triple couronne de la bienheureuse Vierge, the Chroniques et instruction du père Sainct-François.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Ma carie est bien entendu sous la couronne mais quand meme c aberrant c't'hisoire!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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I have shown at the letter E that our e mute, with which we are reproached by an Italian, is precisely what occasions the delicious harmony of our language: — empire, couronne, diadème, épouvantable, sensible.
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