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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of pall.

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Examples

  • *Les pelle à main en haut les cerveaux avec une pelle*

    ~ ~ - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The store carries brands such as pelle pelle and New Era hats.

    News-Gazette.com 2010

  • -- looking out a duct-taped French window, I am startled by the proximity of a heavy metal monster -- a tractopelle* (the "pelle" or "hoe" of which looks as if it will add another crack, or ten, to the fragile window).

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • -- looking out a duct-taped French window, I am startled by the proximity of a heavy metal monster -- a tractopelle* (the "pelle" or "hoe" of which looks as if it will add another crack, or ten, to the fragile window).

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • -- looking out a duct-taped French window, I am startled by the proximity of a heavy metal monster -- a tractopelle* (the "pelle" or "hoe" of which looks as if it will add another crack, or ten, to the fragile window).

    douillet - French Word-A-Day 2007

  • -looking out a duct-taped French window, I am startled by the proximity of a heavy metal monster--a tractopelle* the "pelle" or "hoe" of which looks as if it will add another crack, or ten, to the fragile window.

    douillet - French Word-A-Day 2007

  • -looking out a duct-taped French window, I am startled by the proximity of a heavy metal monster--a tractopelle* the "pelle" or "hoe" of which looks as if it will add another crack, or ten, to the fragile window.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • Une vraie péquenaude avec son tablier bleu, son sécateur, sa petite pelle.

    péquenaud - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • The Italians in Europe called the scourge "rough skin" -- pelle agra.

    Dan Agin: Reality Check: National Health Care is National Security 2009

  • Brushing English setter hair off his backpack is part of getting ready for school, and picking pelle out of his teeth is dinner-table routine.

    Young Guns 2007

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