Piqueur definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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had lost some of his French by the emigration, for he did not know how to pronounce this word piqueur On witnessing all this magnificence, the mind is carried back a few generations, in the inquiry after the progress of luxury, and the usages of our fathers.

—Recollections of Europe

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Examples (21)

Quel meilleur maniere (paroles de Joel) de se sentir en vacance que de se reveiller avec une vieille pateuse de cognac / cigar et un marteau piqueur dans le crane! — TravelPod.com Recent Updates
In the grey dawn the game was turned and the branch broken by our best piqueur. — Essays of Travel
"Sire, this word was pronounced to me by a _piqueur_, who wore crape on his arm." — Ten Years Later
"Serpolet," said I to the _piqueur_, "have you seen the animal?" — Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches
Pelagie, Glemarec René the piqueur, and the four falconers, Raoul, — The King in Yellow