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Will the dishes of today seem as old-fashioned as those I had on the ship when I was 12: the chauds-froids of shrimp, veal marsalas and truffled chicken quenelles?
What I Ate On Mars 2009
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Will the dishes of today seem as old-fashioned as those I had on the ship when I was 12: the chauds-froids of shrimp, veal marsalas and truffled chicken quenelles?
What I Ate On Mars 2009
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Especially when it looks like the French themselves are getting pieds froids?
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Mais il p鑓he par la composition, Ses tableaux sont secs et froids; sa mani鑢e petite et mesquine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Quelques instants fugaces de babillard avec des Canadiens perdus dans les grands froids.
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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Et le sombre soleil qui meurt dans ses yeux froids.
Le Sommeil du Condor 1920
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Mr. Samuel, a commercial gentleman who had got stuck somehow or other at the Alpha and Omega Club, cast a practised eye over the wines, chaud-froids, fruits, salads, ices, the lanterns and other joys of the evening and announced, after a rough computation, that Keith's outlay for that little show must have run well into three figures.
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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Of this opinion is the Count de Buffon himself in another part of his work*: 'en general il paroit ques les pays un peu froids conviennent mieux à nos boeufs que les pays chauds, et qu'ils sont d'autant plus gros et plus grands que le climat est plus humide et plus abondans en paturages.
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"_Déjeûners froids et chauds_," is an inscription which now generally figures on the exterior of a Parisian coffeehouse, beside that of
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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Aux froids climats de l'ourse, et dans ceux du midi,
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755
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