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- noun Plural form of
auberge .
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Examples
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Canterbury: bad as they are, they certainly have the advantage, when compared with the execrable auberges of this country, where one finds nothing but dirt and imposition.
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I have one thing very extraordinary to observe of the French auberges, which seems to be a remarkable deviation from the general character of the nation.
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He assured me that the road by Terni was forty miles shorter than the other, much more safe and easy, and accommodated with exceeding good auberges.
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“Are _messieurs_ aware that there are no _auberges_ in the villages offering accommodations fit for them?”
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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In the auberges here, (every alternate house retailed liquor), brandy sold at a shilling a bottle.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 Various
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In the villages and hamlets in the pastoral districts most of the best houses are inns or auberges, where a bed can be had, and abundance of fare, in the shape of fried potatoes, butter, milk, eggs, coffee, bread often of rye, and hard salt pork sausages.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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Wherever we went -- in the cafés, in the auberges, in the grocer's shop -- there was a picture of Boulanger prancing on his black horse.
Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington
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Such, at least, is the character of the _auberges_, or inns, and _restaurateurs_, with which St. Cloud is even better supplied than our Richmond.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 Various
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Adjoining is a little inn, more like one of the picturesque _auberges_ of the continent than an English house of cheer.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Various
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Along the banks of the stream, and for several miles on either side of it, there are very few villages, and the accommodation in the auberges is about as rough as it can be.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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