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Afternoon coffee was of two kinds – either a mixture served with cream, like the French cafe au lait, or a capucin: coffee served without milk.
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This plant, the succory of former days, is greatly esteemed by the French, by whom it is known as barbe de capucin.
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This plant, the succory of former days, is greatly esteemed by the French, by whom it is known as barbe de capucin.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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One of them, Matthieu, an ex-capucin friar, said to the king: You are ignorant of what is going on; the country is in the greatest danger; the enemy has entered
The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912
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"Barbe de capucin" is a salad made from young shoots of chicory.
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The hair of the common capucin is of a golden olive, with white fur bordering the face.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The horned capucin, or sapajou (Cebus fatuellus), is remarkable for two points of hair which stand out from the forehead, and give it the appearance of having horns.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Un père capucin crut aussi reconnoître sur ces bords les effets frappans de la malédiction celeste.
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814
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"Their barbas," says a contemporary monk [_Histoire des Guerres excitees dans le Comtat venaissin par les Calvinistes du seizieme siecle, par le pere Justin, capucin_], "used to preside at their exercises of religion, which were performed in secret.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830
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C'est que un capucin porte partout les cinq sens de la foi, et que moi je ne suis doué que de deux de la nature. "
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814
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