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Examples
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Would you believe it? at our inn, they never seem to have heard of soap in their lives, and we got quite tired of saying "savon" before we found some in a shop.
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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"You idiot," said the War Babe amiably, "I know what 'savon' is.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917 Various
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Transport yourself there with this triple milled savon.
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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Transport yourself there with this triple milled savon.
Smokey 2010
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Transport yourself there with this triple milled savon.
Remedies 2009
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Transport yourself there with this triple milled savon.
Guest Blogger 2010
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Transport yourself there with this triple milled savon.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Transport yourself there with this triple milled savon.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Thanks for ordering some savon here. ébouriffé (e) (ay-boor-ee-fay) adjective
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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Transport yourself there with this triple milled savon.
French Word-A-Day 2010
qroqqa commented on the word savon
You wash your brawl with every thought, with every gesture, with every conceivable emollient and savon, and expect to find your way again.
—Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Not italicized in the text, so treated as naturalized English, though the text does contain numerous italicized French terms. I have never seen this word used in English. (Nor do I know what 'brawl' is supposed to mean here. But the speaker is a raving Irishman and the author is Djuna Barnes, so mine not to reason why.)
November 21, 2008