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Examples
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His cupboards (ormoires, as he called them in the popular dialect) were filled with a quantity of plate that he brought with him.
Paras. 1–99 1917
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Voltaire, and Rousseau on faith, and buys their books without ever reading them; who maintains that people should say _ormoires_, because women put away their gold and their dresses and moire in those articles of furniture, and that it is only a corruption of the language to say _armoires_.
Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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(ormoires, as he called them in the popular dialect) were filled with a quantity of plate that he brought with him.
Father Goriot 2003
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