couteau

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Here he clapped his hand upon a couteau-de-chasse lying near, but, appearing to think better of it, drew himself up, and, with a shower of nods flung at me, added, "I deny your accusation!"

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  1. A knife or dagger; specifically, a long, straight double-edged weapon carried in the middle ages by persons not of the military class, as on journeys, or by foot-soldiers and attendants on a camp.
  2. Couteau de Brèche a variety of the partizan or halberd, a weapon resembling a short, broad sword-blade fixed on a staff.
  3. Couteau de chasse a hunting-knife, or hunters' knife, especially for breaking or cutting up the quarry.

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  • / La sonnerie du téléphone, le yodel de mes chat de bonne heure le matin, le grattage frénétique de mes chats de leur litière, le bruit d'un couteau sur une assiette ... —  Rosa's Yummy Yums
  • Master and men had a sort of fancy costume, which allowed them to wear a couteau-de-chasse. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
  • Here he clapped his hand upon a couteau-de-chasse lying near, but, appearing to think better of it, drew himself up, and, with a shower of nods flung at me, added, "I deny your accusation!" —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
  • And though I do not bring on the soup in a cocked hat, and carve the venison with a couteau-de-chasse," continued he, bowing very low to Ernstorff, who, standing stiff behind his master's chair, seemed utterly unaware that any other person in the room could experience a necessity; "still I can change a plate or hand the wine without cracking the first, or drinking the second And very good qualities, too!" —  Vivian Grey
  • Cuire pendant 15 - 20 minutes, jusqu'à ce que la lame d'un couteau insérée au centre d'un muffin en ressorte propre. —  Rosa's Yummy Yums
 

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  1. Formerly coutel; locally in United States cuttoe; French couteau, from Old French coutel = Provencal coltelh, cotelh = Spanish cuchillo = Portuguese cutela = Italian cultello, coltello, from Latin cultellus, diminutive of culter, a knife: see colter and cutlass.
 

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