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Examples

  • I wanted some tissues for my runny nose, but I drew a blank on “mouchoirs.”

    cough 2006

  • Je sais faut jamais offrir des mouchoirs a qq un mais la yavé des grenouilleuh!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • _ "(How pretty she is!) you shall have my _batiste mouchoirs_. '"

    Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

  • When the audience were in one of their fits of weeping, and Jasmin had finished his declamation, the Emperor exclaimed, "Why; poet, this is a genuine display of handkerchiefs" -- (Mais, poete, c'est un veritable scene de mouchoirs).

    Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1891

  • French lady introduced the fashion of handkerchiefs by continually raising delicate lace mouchoirs to her lips to hide her bad teeth.

    Dialect Tales 1883

  • Yet that fine French lady introduced the fashion of handkerchiefs by continually raising delicate lace _mouchoirs_ to her lips to hide her bad teeth.

    The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Kate Sanborn 1878

  • If the population clings still to its _douillettes_, _mouchoirs_, and

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • A cheap trunk with broken hinges contains her modest little wardrobe: a few _mouchoirs_, or kerchiefs, used for head-dresses, a spare _douillette_, or long robe, and some tattered linen.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • But one day, while I was showing a lady some handkerchiefs which were marked as mouchoirs de Paris -- I don't know if I pronounce it right, sir -- she said she did not believe they were French cambric; and I, knowing nothing about it, said nothing.

    Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood George MacDonald 1864

  • When the audience were in one of their fits of weeping, and Jasmin had finished his declamation, the Emperor exclaimed, "Why; poet, this is a genuine display of handkerchiefs" -- (Mais, poete, c'est un veritable scene de mouchoirs).

    Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Samuel Smiles 1858

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