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- noun Plural form of
ordure .
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By Décoration maison: 4 manières de te défaire des ordures du foyer et d'optimaliser un espace on February 11, 2010 at 10: 07 pm
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Also: un vide-poches (empty-pocket) = tidy; pin tray un vide-ordures = a garbage chute un vide-pomme = an apple corer un vide greniers = a garage sale
French Word-A-Day: 2004
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Also: un vide-poches (empty-pocket) = tidy; pin tray un vide-ordures = a garbage chute un vide-pomme = an apple corer un vide greniers = a garage sale
French Word-A-Day: 2004
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Also: un vide-poches (empty-pocket) = tidy; pin tray un vide-ordures = a garbage chute un vide-pomme = an apple corer un vide greniers = a garage sale
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Interestingly enough, of our grandiose comics haul, Fart Party Comics, despite its nom des ordures, has proven to be one of our favorites, with its chronicle of twentysomething life and random violence.
Written APE, Oral APE : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2006
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Juif dans les plus d間o鹴antes ordures, avoit 閠� ramass閑 par un chretien et distilloit une huile miraculeuse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Filth and dirt abound every where, and the places immediately contiguous to the huts are furnished plentifully with various ordures.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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With that, I swung on my heel, strode past the big-eyed girl, out of that foul kennel into God's sweet air, followed by the ordures of speech which that knave flung after me.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912
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He poured forth a thousand ordures of speech in his frenzy; he heaped insults upon me and imprecations upon the King, whose lapdog he pronounced me.
Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Rafael Sabatini 1912
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It had been fired by a demoniac who sat astride the great gates waving his discharged carbine and yelling such ordures of speech as it had never been the most noble Marquis's lot to have stood listening to.
The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912
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