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Bon hein parce que j'avais des adresse mais ou ct glauque ou bon j'avais pas d'preuve queca s'faisait bien mais la a part qu'il propose de l'faire a l'emla (la honte) ca a l'air d'aller alors voila!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005
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If you want a real glauque metro experience, go there.
métrétiquette 2004
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"Je me tiens toujours fidèle," he told Rothenstein, "à la sorcière glauque."
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"Je me tiens toujours fidele," he told Rothenstein, "a la sorciere glauque."
Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties Max Beerbohm 1914
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'Je me tiens toujours fidele,' he told Rothenstein, 'a la sorciere glauque. '
Seven Men Max Beerbohm 1914
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In his country it would have been called _glauque_.
The Slave of the Lamp Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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From the Greek "glaukos" by way of the Latin "glaucus," which designated a green/blue/grey color both clear and bright, like water. Later usage extended the meaning to murky water, then metaphorically to anything giving the impression of sadness or misery.
May 11, 2010