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Examples
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I always loved the fact that The Avengers was retitled to Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir for the French market.
positive thinking 2004
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I always loved the fact that The Avengers was retitled to Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir for the French market.
lost in translation 2004
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I always loved the fact that The Avengers was retitled to Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir for the French market.
english tongues 2004
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Said that Bottes was old English for Botts, and that Smythe was new American for Smith; the Augustus was just a fancy touch, a sort of high-card kicker.
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The word Stiefel in German means a boot, and the Frenchman therefore gave the title of Boehm's tract as "Reflexions sur les Bottes d'Isaie."
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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Mes-Bottes shouted to them to come in, but they both refused -- Goujet saying he wanted nothing, and the other, as he hugged a little box of gold chains close to his heart, that he was in a hurry.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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Mes-Bottes ate all the cheese and called for more bread.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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In the meantime Mes-Bottes, accompanied by his two comrades, had lounged to the oak railing and leaned there until there was a corner of the counter free.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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Coupeau was behaving very badly at this time, and one evening as she passed the Assommoir she was certain she saw him drinking with Mes-Bottes.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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She was describing her dolls to Mes-Bottes, whose jaws worked steadily, like machinery.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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