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- noun Plural form of
ruelle .
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Examples
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It is particularly so with regard to the women; who have the utmost contempt for those men, that, having no character nor consideration with their own sex, frivolously pass their whole time in 'ruelles' and at 'toilettes'.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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The world is now the only book you want, and almost the only one you ought to read: that necessary book can only be read in company, in public places, at meals, and in 'ruelles'.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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The world is now the only book you want, and almost the only one you ought to read: that necessary book can only be read in company, in public places, at meals, and in 'ruelles'.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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With those advantages (and not without them) take my word for it, you will get the better of all rivals, in business as well as in 'ruelles'.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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It is particularly so with regard to the women; who have the utmost contempt for those men, that, having no character nor consideration with their own sex, frivolously pass their whole time in 'ruelles' and at 'toilettes'.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1750 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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With those advantages (and not without them) take my word for it, you will get the better of all rivals, in business as well as in 'ruelles'.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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"ruelles," as it was called; and it had so influenced her that she always retained evidences of it.
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"ruelles," as it was called; and it had so influenced her that she always retained evidences of it.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 10 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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"ruelles," as it was called; and it had so influenced her that she always retained evidences of it.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715
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We continue our stroll through a maze of tiny ruelles, * walking where once sewage used to flow as freely as village gossip, when families emptied their chamber-pots into the narrow canal running down the now cobbled streets.
Escapade 2010
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