dauphine

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Alongside the fish came pommes dauphine (breaded globes of garlic mashed potatoes) and sautéed zucchini, tomato and yellow squash - all of it served with crusty French bread and the grace to let me enjoy it with the unhurried reverie it deserved.

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  • Alongside the fish came pommes dauphine (breaded globes of garlic mashed potatoes) and sautéed zucchini, tomato and yellow squash - all of it served with crusty French bread and the grace to let me enjoy it with the unhurried reverie it deserved. www. cheznousaustin.com. —  Austin360 - XL Headlines
  • Alongside the fish came pommes dauphine (breaded globes of garlic mashed potatoes) and sautéed zucchini, tomato and yellow squash - all of it served with crusty French bread and the grace to let me enjoy it with the unhurried reverie it deserved. —  Austin360 - XL Headlines
  • Eighteen years later, these coaches were consumed in a bonfire in the Place du Carrousel At the Château de Maintenon all was confusion and discouragement, when suddenly the dauphine (the Duchesse d'Angoulęme) arrived. —  France in the Nineteenth Century
  • Even the power of the dauphine was not sufficient to provide Adrienne de la Rocheaimard with a suitable husband. —  Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
  • The dauphine, madame, and all the de Rochefoucaulds, de la Tremouilles, de Grammonts, de Rohans, de Crillons, &c.; &c.;, were out of the question. —  Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
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  1. French, feminine of dauphin; see dauphin.

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  1. French, feminine of dauphin.
 

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/ˈdɔfin/
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