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In the French of Montaigne's day, the word essai meant something assayed or essayed … an experiment, a tasting.
Slate Magazine Kwame Anthony Appiah 2011
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-- The essai is the tasting of each dish by the gentlemen servants and officers of the table before the king partakes of it.
The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Essayer is the French verb meaning "to try" and an essai is an attempt.
Forbes.com: News Drew Hansen 2011
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Essayer is the French verb meaning "to try" and an essai is an attempt.
Forbes.com: News Drew Hansen 2011
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If an essay is truly an "essai", a trial, an exploration, then I have to trust that it will evolve a form of its own, which I can then try to shape.
Begging the Question Bruce Schauble 2007
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Essayer is the French verb meaning "to try" (the cousin of our word assay), and an "essai" is an effort.
A Version 1.0 2004
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The highbrow literary equivalent of bullshit might be the "essay," with its French etymology in "essai," or, to try.
Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: The Bullshit Paradox Ph.D. Pamela Haag 2011
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It's a pleasure to exchange ideas with him, for there is always a sense of exploration, joint pursuit, essai.
Archive 2009-04-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009
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It's a pleasure to exchange ideas with him, for there is always a sense of exploration, joint pursuit, essai.
Irritalin L. Lee Lowe 2009
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Et je pense que c'était vous qui a écrite le petit essai sur les tabliers des femmes, il y a quelques mois?
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