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  • No! I, Emphatic I, don't normally have time for this sort of "passe-temps"!

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Instead, I invite you to look through the lens of childhood and into a 12-year-old French boy's "passe-temps."

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Instead, I invite you to look through the lens of childhood and into a 12-year-old French boy's "passe-temps."

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • No! I, Emphatic I, don't normally have time for this sort of "passe-temps"!

    fuseau - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • No! I, Emphatic I, don't normally have time for this sort of "passe-temps"!

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Instead, I invite you to look through the lens of childhood and into a 12-year-old French boy's "passe-temps."

    vinaigre - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Instead, I invite you to look through the lens of childhood and into a 12-year-old French boy's "passe-temps."

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • I, Emphatic I, don't normally have time for this sort of "passe-temps"!

    fuseau - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Then they begin to while away the tedium of the road by asking questions, which passe-temps is not easily exhausted; for they are never satisfied till they know as much of you as you do of yourself.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • At this place, where the tide rises a full metre, the crew of the Mukhbir had built a jetty of rough boulders, by way of passe-temps and to prevent wading.

    The Land of Midian 2003

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