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  • If it weren't so amusing, to see that tree stuffed, de guingois, into the umbrella stand like a wet parapluie, I'd scream!

    de guingois - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • If it weren't so amusing, to see that tree stuffed, de guingois, into the umbrella stand like a wet parapluie, I'd scream!

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • If it weren't so amusing, to see that tree stuffed, de guingois, * into the umbrella stand like a wet parapluie, * I'd scream!

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • I'll buy you a parapluie not for the rain... but for the sun!

    larron - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Clare Shine meets James Thiérrée, whose show Au revoir parapluie runs in Paris through the end of the month: When the rest of us were falling off bikes, he was mastering the trapeze - along with the violin, several languages and much else.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 5/14. 2007

  • After I got home, several hours later, I tried to calm down with the help of a Georges Brasssens ballad, "Le parapluie", sung by Yann Tiersen with a little help from Madame Sarko, alias Carla Bruni.

    Umbrella time, again 2008

  • In the sleepy outskirts of Lorgues (southeast France) I park next to an open barn, leaving my parapluie* in the car before walking through a gentle rain, down the slippery moss-covered path to an old bastide* where an English painter and chef has built her nid d'amour* in one 'branch' of an old rectangular maison.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • In the sleepy outskirts of Lorgues (southeast France) I park next to an open barn, leaving my parapluie* in the car before walking through a gentle rain, down the slippery moss-covered path to an old bastide* where an English painter and chef has built her nid d'amour* in one 'branch' of an old rectangular maison.

    frotter - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • For those tempted to spin around a lamppost and sing in the rain, a custom-made umbrella from Swaine Adeney Brigg (which also supplies Prince Charles with his favorite silver-tipped parapluie) should do the trick.

    Styling in the Rain 2008

  • After I got home, several hours later, I tried to calm down with the help of a Georges Brasssens ballad, "Le parapluie", sung by Yann Tiersen with a little help from Madame Sarko, alias Carla Bruni.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2008

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  • French for umbrella. . . .

    March 1, 2009