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- noun A
bottle ofwine (usuallyBordeaux ) containing 2.25liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.
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Examples
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A great effort was now made to take it back with them, but the attempt was unsuccessful: they had not dragged it above five hundred yards, when they heard that the republicans were following them; and then, as every man was obliged to think of himself, poor 'Marie Jeanne' was left to her fate.
La Vendée Anthony Trollope 1848
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'Marie Jeanne' that night was patted, kissed, and caressed by thousands.
La Vendée Anthony Trollope 1848
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'Marie Jeanne' had been carried across with them, and was soon brought into play; they had still enough ammunition left to enable their favourite to show her puissance in battering against the chief gates of Saumur.
La Vendée Anthony Trollope 1848
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"So he's president over 'Marie Jeanne' and the gunpowder," said Henri;
La Vendée Anthony Trollope 1848
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It was here that 'Marie Jeanne' was taken from the troops of the Republic by the valour of the townsmen, and, adorned with garlands by their sisters and daughters, was dragged in triumph through the streets, with such bright presentiments of future success and glory.
La Vendée Anthony Trollope 1848
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The men had brought 'Marie Jeanne' with them; but in the species of attack which they had made, the cannon was not of the slightest use; it had not been once discharged.
La Vendée Anthony Trollope 1848
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“How!” said Henri, “with your sticks and your hands, my friends — as your neighbours in St. Florent took her, at first, from the blues; we all think much of the men of St. Florent, because it was they first took ‘Marie Jeanne;’ let us be the men who rescue her from these traitors, and these people will think much of us.”
La Vend�e 2004
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‘Marie Jeanne’ had been carried across with them, and was soon brought into play; they had still enough ammunition left to enable their favourite to show her puissance in battering against the chief gates of Saumur.
La Vend�e 2004
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The men had brought ‘Marie Jeanne’ with them; but in the species of attack which they had made, the cannon was not of the slightest use; it had not been once discharged.
La Vend�e 2004
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“We must run fast, friends,” said Chapeau to his allies from Durbellière and Echanbroignes, “for the first men who reach Varin, will retake ‘Marie Jeanne;’ we will have a share in her, as well as the men of St. Florent.”
La Vend�e 2004
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