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  • "Crusted pie Lucullus" turned out to be a pate laced with chunks of foie gras; chicken quenelles were dumplings, flecked with black truffles; "golden reserve" pheasant in voliere [sic] arrived in a sauce made with "fine" Champagne.

    'It Seemed Like A Good Idea At the Time' 2009

  • When I wish to recollect his name, I shall think of _voliere_ [an aviary]; and as I have one at Pierrefonds -- "

    The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

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