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  • Tomatoes (allegedly to the French term pomme d'amour as a misrendering of pomme de Maure)

    Techmeme 2009

  • Maybe this helps to understand those foreign words, which indicate that this plant came from the New World: love apple in English, pomme d'amour in French, Liebesapfel say the Germans, and pommo d'oro (golden apple) in Italy.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks janjacquet 2009

  • The key color for Eres this season, she added, is pomme, a.k.a. bright green, so she went with the granny smith flavor.

    In East Hampton, Ushering in New Shops Marshall Heyman 2011

  • The key color for Eres this season, she added, is pomme, a.k.a. bright green, so she went with the granny smith flavor.

    In East Hampton, Ushering in New Shops Marshall Heyman 2011

  • Various tubers that had long been eaten in Europe were known as earth apples and earth pears in German erdapfel and erdbirn; in French, pomme de terre and poire de terre.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • Various tubers that had long been eaten in Europe were known as earth apples and earth pears in German erdapfel and erdbirn; in French, pomme de terre and poire de terre.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • The four corners of the canopy were decorated with bunches of plumes or panache, or with a carved wooden ornament called pomme, or with a "_bouquet_" of silk.

    Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop

  • Its use then spread to Italy and to France, where it reportedly was called pomme d'amour, or love apple.

    Ledger-Enquirer: Breaking News 2009

  • Approaching town, the train advanced at half-speed. le casanier, la casanière = stay-at-home, homebody une pomme (f) = apple le pain (m) = bread au lointain = in the distance le marché paysan (m) = the farmers 'market le pont (m) = bridge mi-vitesse = half-speed

    mi-vitesse - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • And so I pulled on my boots, packed a pomme and some pain ... and headed out, direction Orange, to the Gard, au lointain.

    mi-vitesse - French Word-A-Day 2010

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  • See pomeis.

    October 5, 2011