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  • proper noun A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Jacques Denys Choisy (1799-1859).

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Examples

  • It ends on the slopes of the hill called Choisy, at the edge of the wood which is there.

    First and Last Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • The Duke of Burgundy easily took Gournay-sur-Aronde, and then laid siege to Choisy-sur-Aisne, also called Choisy-au-Bac, at the junction of the Aisne and the Oise. [

    The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

  • Though it has only reproductions, the Musée Gauguin , a couple of minutes north on the D62, is worth a stop Quartier Choisy, Le Carbet; 0596-78-22 66.

    Take Monday Off: Martinique Chris Nuttall-Smith 2011

  • Minor-key, odd-buddy romance, in which a former heroin addict (Carré) strikes up an unusual affair with her dead lover's gay brother (French singer-songwriter Choisy).

    This week's new cinema releases 2010

  • Choisy attended the April 1918 meeting in Geneva in which John R. Mott addressed a number of important issues that created friction between the World's Alliance and the American YMCA, especially in regard to WPA operations and the activities of Archibald Harte.

    Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

  • The story was told by the Abbé de Choisy and written by Francis Parkman, Pioneers of France in the New World 1865, revised edition with corrections, 1885; rpt.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The story was told by the Abbé de Choisy and written by Francis Parkman, Pioneers of France in the New World 1865, revised edition with corrections, 1885; rpt.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • For chinese food, Sinorama intersection rue Tolbiac-avenue de Choisy

    Le Cambodge Etienne 2006

  • One day he sent for her to Choisy, and hid her in a mill without anything to eat or drink; for it was a fast day, and the Dauphin thought there was no greater sin than to eat meat on a fast day.

    The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

  • The fire from the French left, near the river, was taken up on the Gloucester shore, when Choisy discovered a British force, crowded into six flatboats, that sought to get beyond his right flank.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

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