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  • noun Obsolete form of filter.
  • verb Obsolete form of filter.

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Examples

  • After I graduated, I planned to go to Paris, and I imagined that somehow we would have a drink at the Cafe Flore or one of the other Left Bank establishments I had heard about, and that over a cafe filtre or a vin blanc, we would talk for hours.

    Jesse Kornbluth: January 4, 1960: Albert Camus Dies In a Car Crash, Age 46. His Books Make Him Immortal 2010

  • After I graduated, I planned to go to Paris, and I imagined that somehow we would have a drink at the Cafe Flore or one of the other Left Bank establishments I had heard about, and that over a cafe filtre or a vin blanc, we would talk for hours.

    January 4, 1960: Albert Camus Dies In a Car Crash, Age 46. His Books Make Him Immortal 2010

  • After I graduated, I planned to go to Paris, and I imagined that somehow we would have a drink at the Cafe Flore or one of the other Left Bank establishments I had heard about, and that over a cafe filtre or a vin blanc, we would talk for hours.

    Jesse Kornbluth: January 4, 1960: Albert Camus Dies In a Car Crash, Age 46. His Books Make Him Immortal 2010

  • The LCG database deployment project has set up a worldwide distributed database infrastructure for the LHC wich currently uses Oracle Streams to capture, filtre and synchronise data from worldwide locations.

    CERN's IT Infrastructure for Big Bang Theory Experiment 2008

  • C'est par cette raison que l'on fait de très-beau précipité pourpre, en mettant des feuilles d'étain telles qu'on les trouve dans des livrets chez les Doreurs, dans une bonne quantité de dissolution d'alun; si on filtre cette liqueur après que les feuilles d'étain y auront séjourné huit ou dix jours, & qu'on y mette ensuite de la dissolution d'or.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • I could’ve installed a filtre, as has been suggested, but not knowing how long I’d be staying here, it was a matter of convenience to refill the bottles instead.

    Bottled Water Is Still A Scam - Anil Dash 2007

  • Nothing consoled my mediocrity more than sulking in a San Francisco cafe, wearing my black leather jacket, drinking bad red wine, and glaring at disapproving Greens while I worked sullenly through a pack of those blue devils, sans filtre.

    The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! Miss Snark 2006

  • Pour rsourdre le problme de matriel, le Gouvernement Burkinab a essay de doter chaque province d'un matriel de base simple tel que tamis, casserole, filtre eau etc ... pour leur permettre de raliser quelques recettes simples.

    Chapter 7 1991

  • They sit in the same old yellow armchairs drinking the locally made '33' beer or café filtre.

    Vietnam: The First Year Terzani, Tiziano 1976

  • As I said, Dissolve Vitriol in water: then powder Galls finely, and soak them in water: let them stay there twenty-four hours: filtre them through a linen cloth, or something else, that may make the water clear, and make letters upon the paper that you desire to have concealed: send it to your Friend absent: when you would have them appear, dip them in the first liquor, and the letters will presently be seen.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

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