Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A very dark green color.
Examples
“But "Le corbeau" still was a touchstone for the young François Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol has drawn on Clouzot's mordant critiques of bourgeois society.”
The Wall Street Journal: A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery
“Subtle yet merciless, Clouzot's wartime masterpiece "The Raven" "Le corbeau," 1943 attracted a flood of controversy that stained his career.”
The Wall Street Journal: A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery
“Renommé Raven parce qu'il me fait penser a un corbeau et The Raven est un poeme d'Edgar Allan Poe ecriavin que j'apprecie beaucoup!”
“Labels: corbeau du nord, Guelph Arboretum, University of Guelph”
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites
“Pour une fois ,laissons la parole à Ted Stanger , le corbeau qui croasse en américain: "Aux USA nous avons des foires aux armes , en France vous avez des foires aux livres !”
“Labels: corbeau du nord, Guelph Arboretum, statues”
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites
“As the photographer corbeau du nord points out in their notes on this photos Flickr homepage, cows wading in streams may seem quaint but in fact are nasty polluting machines.”
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites
“Labels: corbeau du nord, Guelph Arboretum, University of Guelph, winter”
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites
“Daddy, see if I know my La Fontaine fable: Le corbeau et le renard.”
“Then, doctor, when I recollect the letter he wrote to Edward Bouverie, in which he said he could not come down to a ball because his only corbeau coat was so bad he was ashamed to appear in it, I reflect what a rise he has had in the world.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘corbeau’.
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Open List: Greens
A lits of greens: cooked leafy vegetables; pigments, paint names, compound words, etc; words and phrases that pertain to or contain "green". Please add your favorites!
See this list f...greenery, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, green shoots, viridian green, malachite green, sap green, green grocer, radish greens, beet greens, spring green and 281 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...

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