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Tosspotdemologists may be a port-manteaux too far.
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On me dit que le temps qui glisse est un salaud que de nos chagrins il s'en fait des manteaux pourtant quelqu'un m'a dit...
09/01/2006 2006
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Les templiers: ces grands seigneurs aux blancs manteaux.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Les templiers: ces grands seigneurs aux blancs manteaux.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Les templiers: ces grands seigneurs aux blancs manteaux.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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The hand work was a special feature of all the garments for women in the lingerie, gowns, and manteaux.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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We read much of the luxurious effeminacy of the old Romans, their fantastically curled hair, their favourite robes, &c.; but what will posterity think of some of the modes of puppyism in our times, when they read in a chronicle of fashion, dated 1829, that gentlemen wore elegant drab cloth opera manteaux lined with scarlet velvet, and confined at the collar with a gold chain!
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829 Various
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After two years he was permitted to repair to the monastery of Blancs-manteaux in Paris; where he spent the remainder of his life in literary pursuits.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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'Seigneurs graves,' in dancing the pavan on great occasions, wear their 'grands manteaux, et robes de parade.'
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Her accounts with the great retail houses along Broad Street were always settled by checks on the Grindstone, as well as her obligations to the insatiable cormorants that trafficked in "robes and manteaux" farther up town.
Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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