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  • They are seen individually, so, "Ce SONT" is very appropriate and would be my choice. le paon du jour is a peacock butterfly le vulcain is a red admiral la (vanesse) petite tortue is a tortoiseshell la piéride = pierid

    faux amis - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Li Baudrains traist sa fierge por son paon sauver,

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • "Le Roi lui-même, ou le plus renommé des chevaliers présents, ayant découpé le paon, se leva, et mettant la main sur l'oiseau, fit un voeu hardi; Ensuite il passa le plat, et chacun de ceux qui le reçurent fit un voeu semblable."

    Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

  • Kya paon samait kar laitay howe durood shareef parh saktay hain?

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

  • Baho ka susar ki khidmat karna masalan paon dabana, haath choomna waghera kesa hai? jab ke khidmat na karnay par susar naraz bhi hota ho?

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

  • The manuscript in question is one that I've drawn from before, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24, a fourteenth-century Flemish manuscript which includes, among other things, a copy of Jacques de Longuyon's Vows of the Peacock (AKA Les Voeux du paon), a late chanson de geste that is only read these days because it contains a very early (and possibly the first) catalogue of heroes grouped into Nine Worthies.

    Got Medieval 2009

  • Kya paon samait kar laitay howe durood shareef parh saktay hain?

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

  • (laughter) but more often of the crŠme-de-citron, vair ‚ mail paon-coque or marshmallow series, which she, as bearer, used to en — dorse, adhesively, to her various payers-drawers who in most cases were identified by the timber papers as wellknown tetigists of the city and suburban.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • le paon du jour is a peacock butterfly le vulcain is a red admiral la vanesse petite tortue is a tortoiseshell la piéride = pierid

    faux amis - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Norway — nutmeg — — t owl — paon ■ ■ parrot ■ partridge — pailenger —

    A general synopsis of birds [microform] 1783

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  • Peacock blue.

    March 1, 2009