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The _Duc de Bourbon_ is Charles the First of Bourbon, who died at the end of the year 1456, "gracieux" because his son protected
Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Les Croates qui nous ont invités à boire le café sont accueillants et gracieux.
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Les Croates qui nous ont invités à boire le café sont accueillants et gracieux.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Les Croates qui nous ont invités à boire le café sont accueillants et gracieux.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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‘Il a fait un compliment tres gracieux a une certaine grande dame;’ meaning a Duchess of the first rank.
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He received me avec un sourire le plus gracieux du monde, and I was obliged to present my address of compliments.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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Although he has painted hosts of excellent dog pictures, cats are his favorites, on account, as he says, of "les formes fines et gracieux; mouvements, souple et subtil."
Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow
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Begin with left foot forward, and in doing the révérence, half turn your body and face towards the Damoiselle, and cast on her 'un gracieux regard.'
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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He received me avec un sourire le plus gracieux du monde, and I was obliged to present my address of compliments.
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General Paoli, talking of Goldsmith's new play, said, 'Il a fait un compliment tres gracieux a une certaine grande dame;' meaning a Duchess of the first rank [655].
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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