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  • If it does, it's quality crap, N. Gordo's constitutional pot pourri, is as you say, a wee device to distract the masses from the real isssue which ought to be a referendum on the EU constitution redux.

    Religious Intolerance is a Good Thing Newmania 2007

  • With the aid of dealers, auctioneers, and other slightly dubious middle-men, the Prince Regent spent a lifetime picking off these limping antelopes at the edge of the luxury herd: exceedingly rare Sèvres models with royal (usually French) provenance; dessert services, loopy garnitures, wacky covered vases, and intricately perforated jars for pot-pourri, and thousands of other vessels that were disbursed as a direct result of the French Revolution.

    Sèvres 2009

  • The brown leather boots, tastefully adorned with the trust's oak leaf symbol, are now in offer in trust shops alongside more traditional offerings such as pot pourri and pewter ornaments.

    National Trust to sell semi-recycled leather walking boots ? made in China Patrick Barkham 2010

  • Having had a sachet of pot pourri disintegrate la-dedans at one time, I didn't think too much about it when a nice aroma emanated every time I opened the purse, until it started to get sticky in there.

    choper - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Such a perfect pot-pourri of political illiteracy and unrepentant misogyny would be difficult to invent.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • What was once a small Indian village is presented as a pot-pourri of contrasting sights and sounds.

    Montreal by Night The Nag 2009

  • Having had a sachet of pot pourri disintegrate la-dedans at one time, I didn't think too much about it when a nice aroma emanated every time I opened the purse, until it started to get sticky in there.

    choper - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • I don't mind vacuuming up ground up pot pourri around my bookshelves now and again to repel bugs from my library.

    Dear Bibliobull - repelling insects nicely 2008

  • I once made my granola glassine bag, tied with a satin ribbon--a very elegant presentation if I do say so myself and when I handed it to the fancy hostess she said, "Oh, pot pourri!" in a you-shouldn't-have-and-I-wish-you-hadn't kind of way.

    Miranda Levenstein: Better-To-Give Chocolate Dipped Almond Stuffed Dates Miranda Levenstein 2010

  • Those wanting a fruity option can go for "Pep pourri" at $22.50 a gram.

    Smoke and confusion surrounds synthetic marijuana 'spice' 2010

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