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Others point to a popular local dish, escargot called petits gris de Namur, or little grays.

A Belgian Getaway 2008

With many generations to come, the name of César de St. Auban must perforce be familiar as that of one of the greatest roysterers and most courtly libertines of the early days of Louis XIV., as well as that of a rabid anti-cardinalist and frondeur, and one of the earliest of that new cabal of nobility known as the petits-maîtres, whose leader the Prince de Condé was destined to become a few years later.

The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes Rafael Sabatini 1912

What the people of Milan call chicchere, we call petits maitres, or fops.

The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang A 1864

Alas, the moment one exits the café and emerges onto a dusty sidewalk, surrounded by crumbling facades and the rusting Peugeots known as petits taxis that wind through the garbage-strewn streets, the illusion evaporates: Casablanca meets Casablanca.

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What the people of Milan call chicchere, we call petits maitres, or fops.

The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1773

Instead of the ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as a petits materiaux — small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing.

Les Miserables 2008

Instead of the ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as a petits materiaux -- small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing.

Les Miserables, Volume V, Jean Valjean 1862

Instead of the ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as a petits materiaux -- small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing.

Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

Waiting for me when I step out the door (and then lining the roads of Moussoro) are the kids, the "petits" as they call them here.

Archive 2006-02-01 Zach Center 2006

Waiting for me when I step out the door (and then lining the roads of Moussoro) are the kids, the "petits" as they call them here.

Walking To Class Zach Center 2006