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- noun A section of
verse concerning a singletheme ;tirade .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That the Bush administration has taken this kind of laisse-faire approach when it comes to government, when it comes to helping out people, the free market approach.
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The assonances are beyond recovering; the "laisse" or leash of verses or assonances with the concluding cry, "Aoi," has long ago vanished from verse or song.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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This "laisse" is even more eleventh-century than the other, but it appealed no longer to the warriors; it spoke rather to the monks.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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Même quand on l'a perdu, l'amour qu'on a connu vous laisse un goût de miel.
Escapade 2010
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Many conservatives act like laisse faire is dogma give us by GOD and we just have to let the markets be free no matter how often this is PROVEN wrong by factual reality.
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Français · Le discours d'Obama au Ghana laisse des Africains sceptiques
Global Voices in English » Obama’s Ghana Speech Underwhelms 2009
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Il laisse aussi un gigantesque parc mobilier et immobilier en France et des comptes bancaires secrets qui bien évidemment font et feront le bonheur des paradis fiscaux qui les hébergent.
Global Voices in English » Gabon: On President Omar Bongo’s death 2009
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Everytime we go all laisse Faire and go full free market capitalism eats itself and yet there are still morons who think we ought to try it again
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A voir la longévité au pouvoir, 25 ans, de ce président tout laisse à penser qu'Obama a prêché dans le désert.
Global Voices in English » Congo Brazzaville: Disappointment at Presidential election 2009
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We've done better than any country in the world with the "old" way of governing (laisse faire).
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