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"perles," peculiar excuses, mistakes in translation and spelling, and other inadvertent puns by students of French at all levels (with a brief description of circumstances if possible), as well as tongue twisters, humorous rhymes and sayings, word games, puzzles, and "contrepeteries" for more advanced students of French, I would welcome contributions.
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That's hardly the word you would reach for first to describe Les pêcheurs de perles, Bizet's patchy early opera.
The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida Fiona Maddocks 2010
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Les perles de wampum étaient aussi utilisées comme monnaie, en particulier dans la zone septentrionale, de même que le tabac ou les certificats de tabac conservé dans des entrepôts de Virginie.
Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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Also: un rang de perles = a string or rope of pearls deux (trois, quatre ...) jours de rang = two (three, four ...) days in a row
Traditions 2008
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Also un rang de perles = a string or rope of pearls deux (trois, quatre…) jours de rang = two (three, four…) days in a row
Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007
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Deux grains de sucres pour les deux ans de foodbeam – Sablés au thé matcha et cupcakes à la vanille, aux perles du Japon et au thé vert
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Deux grains de sucres pour les deux ans de foodbeam – Sablés au thé matcha et cupcakes à la vanille, aux perles du Japon et au thé vert
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L'évocation de la cote AAPL aurait ainsi bouclé la boucle dans laquelle tu aurais pu enfiler les perles que ta Mémoire Vive n'aurait, bien entendu, pas oubliées.
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What Le Figaro actually wrote was: "Mme Rice, tailleur noir, collier de perles et silhouette impeccablement droite, a redonne [sic] le 'la' de la 'nouvelle diplomatie' americaine [sic]."
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And whan thei ben nyghe him, with the cros, thanne he dothe a down his galaothe, that syt upon his hede, in manere of a chapelet, that is made of gold and preciouse stone and grete perles.
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