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  • Chat amongst yourselves until Chris in Paris wakes up to enlighten you with his outre-mer wisdom (unless Michael in NYC gets bored, then he may start blogging shortly).

    09/24/2004 2004

  • Who, writing in French or in any language, _outre-mer_, does better, or as well, as Holliday?

    Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888

  • Her whole record outre-mer was of a piece with the enslavement and extermination of the gentle Caribs, with which it began.

    History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880

  • In this petit coin of Swans we shall, through English spectacles, look at l'Hexagone (as France métropolitaine is often called, to exclude the DOM -- the départements outre-mer -- overseas departments that remain part of France).

    unknown title 2009

  • In this petit coin of Swans we shall, through English spectacles, look at l'Hexagone (as France métropolitaine is often called, to exclude the DOM -- the départements outre-mer -- overseas departments that remain part of France).

    unknown title 2009

  • _outre-mer_, even by Galilee's wave, and dwelt as an Arab in the desert.

    The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • Especially the sweet bunny rabbit that wriggled his ears and loved Gralice, the princesse d’ outre-mer.

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

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