Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.
- noun the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical, law
succession to thegoods of astranger notnaturalized
Etymologies
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French, from aubain an alien, from Latin alibi elsewhere.
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Examples
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(70 CD!), une aubaine pour les adeptes du "peer to peer"; musical.
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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The sentence that I like is this: "Une vraie aubaine pour la rédaction des manuels utilisateur avec mise à disposition sur le Web" translates to this in
MSDN Blogs 2008
sionnach commented on the word aubaine
inheriting goods from a foreigner.
January 3, 2008
bilby commented on the word aubaine
Give. Me.
November 21, 2008