en-tout-cas

• A little pause, and MAUD comes running, fairly dry, stolid, breathless, and dragging a bull-dog, wet, breathless, and stout, by the crutch end of her 'en-tout-cas']. —  Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
• Dances, because Dora would not lend me hers last year because she said they were too difficult for me; as if _that_ were any business of hers; surely my music mistress is a better judge; then some writing paper with my monogram, a new en-tout-cas with everything complete, and hair ribbons and other trifles. —  A Young Girl's Diary
• His umbrella was a dainty en-tout-cas with a mother-of-pearl handle, that had answered well enough in heavy mist or soft drizzle. —  Penelope's Irish Experiences
• The costume of the prima ballerina assoluta in our grandfather's days was something like an umbrella and a pair of braces: the umbrella shrank to the _en-tout-cas_, and the _en-tout-cas_ to the open parasol; unless the movement is arrested, in the course of time a lampshade will be reached, and ultimately, say, fifty years hence, the Genée of the period will have nothing more of skirt and petticoat than some kind of fringe round the waist, indicating, like our coccygeal vertebrae, or the rudimentary limbs of the whale, a mere useless atrophied apparatus. —  Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
• There were the big trunk and the little one, and the plaids with loosened strap, the umbrella, the _en-tout-cas_, the bouquet, and the book. —  Norse Tales and Sketches

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