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→ Jean-Claude shrugged his shoulders = Jean-Claude haussa les épaules to shrug one's shoulders = hausser les épaules
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These are the factors in the Wyndham Act which have made M. Paul-Dubois declare of it that -- "Emaneé d'un gouvernment, ami des landlords, elle cache mal, sous un apparence d'impartialité d'adroits efforts pour faire aux landlords de la part belle pour hausser en leur faveur le prix de la terre."
Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell
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Ny me hausser le vol quau mouvoir de vostre æsle:
Sonnets. i 1920
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(*) (*) There is a pun in the French on the two meanings of the verb _hausser_, -- "to raise" and to "augment" or "run up."
Cent nouvelles nouvelles L��on Leb��que 1896
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Some have derived _hoezee_ from _haussé_, a French word of applause at the hoisting (Fr. _hausser_) of the admiral's flag.
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