Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
arriere .
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Examples
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La bon j'veux pas dire mais un panneau STOP en plein milieu d'une 4 voies je me suis demandé quoi mais respectueux du code de la route je me vois freiné comme un damné ramenant par la meme occasion les sieges arrieres a l'avant et me cassant deux dents sur le volant (pas vraiment cassées mais j'ai eu tres mal)
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Tout est arrivé a l'avant de la voiture, tout, meme les trucs des sieges arrieres!
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We may trace in it all kinds of 'arrieres pensees', philosophical and sociological, that an artist ought not to have, and we may even dislike its dominating conception of a vague spirit that pervades the universe; but we must admit that when he wrote it was as if seized and swept away by some "unseen power" that fell upon him unpremeditated.
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I have read Bernard's 'Gentilhomme Campagnard' (see how arrieres we are in French literature!), and thought it the dullest and worst of his books.
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Out from these arrieres of persons and scenes, I was born May 31, 1819.
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Out from these arrieres of persons and scenes, I was born May 31, 1819.
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Out from these arrieres of persons and scenes, I was born May
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
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Fortunately, there is an English society here, a kind of book-club, who, with their Minister, have united in a subscription to order from England all the new publications, and as C--- n is a member of this society, we are not so _arrieres_ in regard to the literature of the day as might be supposed.
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