lilas

• “Depending on the region, interspersed breaks in the play can become impromptu talent shows for local society, and a de facto competition takes place between neighbouring Ram lilas, each vying to stage a more lavish production.”

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• “Pour Jules, un grand bouquet de fleurs de lilas de Californie sud.”

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• “Julie's lilas (m) & romarin (m) (lilac & rosemary)”

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• “Au jardin de mon pere les lilas sont fleuris (bis)”

  Aupres de Ma Blonde

• “There are moments when the odour of lilas blanc passes suddenly across me, and I have to live the strangest month of my life over again.”

  The Picture of Dorian Gray

• “Closerie des lilas, it was instructive to compare this with a low English dancing-house, the Holborn Casino, which was merely sad, stiff, and repulsive.”

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• “One of them, a vivacious young Frenchwoman, was induced to give Barrois's romance, "J'ai vu fleurir notre dernier lilas!”

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• “For me, accustomed to the gay and grotesque life deployed in an evening at the dancing-place of the Parisian students in the _Closerie des lilas_, it was instructive to compare this with a low English dancing-house, the Holborn Casino, which was merely sad, stiff, and repulsive.”

  Recollections of My Childhood and Youth

• “Une grande haie dépouillée, des massifs de lilas sans feuilles, des tas de balayures sur la neige, et des tonnelles toutes blanches qui ressemblaient”

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• “References: un stylo (m) = pen; bon à rien = good for nothing; le sirop (m) pour la toux (f) = cough syrup; le papier toilette (m) = toilet paper; la carte de voeux (f) = New Year's greeting card; le lilas (m) = lilac; la toile (f) = canvas (painting); Jules = my mom; le carnet de notes = notebook; la Côte Vermeille = the Gilded Coast (near Spain)”

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