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Examples
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A bottle of truly disagreeable absinthe didn't help (a French brand I'd not tried before, La Muse Verte, and it louches a muddy yellow).
"Take the poison of your age. Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page." greygirlbeast 2010
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A bottle of truly disagreeable absinthe didn't help (a French brand I'd not tried before, La Muse Verte, and it louches a muddy yellow).
"Take the poison of your age. Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page." greygirlbeast 2010
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It louches nicely -- that is, it gains a cloudy opalescence with the addition of water -- and I can bring myself to drink it, with water and a little sugar, with something resembling pleasure.
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Il compte acheter avec ce deuxième prêt, 10 douzaines de tasses, des baignoires, des seaux, des louches et des assiettes en plastique.
Kiva Loans 2010
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Then he saw that his aunt's grievance -- there came a moment, later, when she asserted as much -- was not quite what her recreant child, in Balaklava Place, had represented it -- with questionable taste perhaps -- to a mocking actress; was not a mere shocked quarrel with his adoption of a "low" career, or a horror, the old-fashioned horror, of the _louches_ licences taken by artists under pretext of being conscientious: the day for this was past, and
The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879
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