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Who would make sure there was enough fresh water in its gamelle, * and what about la pillule, * barking, ticks ... not to mention who would watch it while we were away?
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Who would make sure there was enough fresh water in its gamelle, * and what about la pillule, * barking, ticks ... not to mention who would watch it while we were away?
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Who would make sure there was enough fresh water in its gamelle,* and what about la pillule,* barking, ticks... not to mention who would watch it while we were away?
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Who would make sure there was enough fresh water in its gamelle,* and what about la pillule,* barking, ticks... not to mention who would watch it while we were away?
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There was a _gamelle_, with a "_crochet pour l'enlever_" and a _couvercle_, which, not to show itself proud, would lend its services also as an _assiette_ or a _poêle à frire_.
The Princess Passes 1901
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In one side of the holster was his gamelle; in the other, ammunition.
On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes Mildred Aldrich 1890
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"with his friends and prostitutes brought under requisition, he has an orgy;" he allows himself the same indulgence on the galiot during the drownings; there at the end of a drunken frolic, he is regaled with merry songs, for example, "la gamelle": [32143] he needs his amusements.
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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