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Examples
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Aunt Marie-Françoise, Uncle Jean-Claude, and Kiwi The Canine arrived in time to félicitent our 12-year-old cavalière and to join us for a picnic of merguez, frites, and Domaine Rouge-Bleu rosé, bien sûr!
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Aunt Marie-Françoise, Uncle Jean-Claude, and Kiwi The Canine arrived in time to félicitent our 12-year-old cavalière and to join us for a picnic of merguez, frites, and Domaine Rouge-Bleu rosé, bien sûr!
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Aunt Marie-Françoise, Uncle Jean-Claude, and Kiwi The Canine arrived in time to félicitent our 12-year-old cavalière and to join us for a picnic of merguez, frites, and Domaine Rouge-Bleu rosé, bien sûr!
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Aunt Marie-Françoise, Uncle Jean-Claude, and Kiwi The Canine arrived in time to félicitent our 12-year-old cavalière and to join us for a picnic of merguez, frites, and Domaine Rouge-Bleu rosé, bien sûr!
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Ils sont aujourd'hui très inquiets de voir le premier ministre traiter les grandes sociétés pétrolières, le gouvernement fédéral ou des alliés aussi costauds qu'Hydro-Québec de manière si cavalière.
The revenge of the Newfies? Ed Hollett 2007
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Oberea of Papara in the absence of her husband to find her attendant was a cavalière servente.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900
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Faith Cook, la cavalière est à l'hopital, son cheval
Le Phare Gilles Klein 2009
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No foreigner at the great King's court was more admired than the lovely Lady Fareham, whose separation from her black-browed husband occasioned no scandal in a society where the husbands of beautiful women were for the most part gentlemen who pursued their own vulgar amours abroad, and allowed a wide liberty to the Venus at home; nor was Henri de Malfort's constant attendance upon her ladyship a cause of evil-speaking, since there was scarce a woman of consequence who had not her _cavalière servante_.
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_ Mungo had reason; my gentleman of the dark eye is suspiciously like _cavalière servante_. "
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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"She managed to exist for a round dozen years without my love -- or doubting it -- so long as she had her _cavalière servante_.
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