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  • Taking her example, I cradled the newly-labeled bottles into my own T-shirt, in time to give them a good patting dry and, like that, after a quick coup de chiffon* the bottles were laid to bed in cozy, dry cartons ... having been tended to like well-fed babies, caressed, and even blessed, by the baptismal pluie de

    mise en bouteille / wine bottling 2009

  • Français · Maroc: La pluie seule n'est pas la cause de tous les maux

    Global Voices in English » Morocco: Don’t Blame the Rain 2009

  • The brook below is pocketed with pluie and the mallard ducks are hiding out.

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • I thought, at which point the sky responded with a cantankerous CLAP and, like that, down poured the pluie.

    mise en bouteille / wine bottling 2009

  • Thankfully, I've begun to grasp a few astuces* along the way: to dig when the earth is soft, for example, after a rainstorm, and to profiter* from a light pluie.

    garden, gardening 2009

  • Fréderic Malle, founder of Editions de Parfums, an alternative brand of luxury scents that includes three of Mr. Ellena's fragrances—Cologne Bigarade, Angélique sous la pluie and L'Eau d'hiver, says, Jean-Claude has always played the fragrance game as high art.

    A French Perfumer's Seductive Sense Lanie Goodman 2011

  • The brook below is pocketed with pluie and the mallard ducks are hiding out.

    bapteme - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Download MP3 or Download WAV il y a vingt ans = twenty years ago la pluie = rain hier = yesterday la campagne = open country le canard colvert = mallard duck le baptême = baptism, christening

    bapteme - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Je travaille dans un supermarché et tous les jour à 9h pile, On voit toujours les même personnes qu'il fait soleil, neige ou pluie.

    la routine - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Download MP3 or Download WAV il y a vingt ans = twenty years ago la pluie = rain hier = yesterday la campagne = open country le canard colvert = mallard duck le baptême = baptism, christening

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

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  • Parapluie.

    November 7, 2008