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Examples
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No! I, Emphatic I, don't normally have time for this sort of "passe-temps"!
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Instead, I invite you to look through the lens of childhood and into a 12-year-old French boy's "passe-temps."
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Instead, I invite you to look through the lens of childhood and into a 12-year-old French boy's "passe-temps."
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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No! I, Emphatic I, don't normally have time for this sort of "passe-temps"!
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No! I, Emphatic I, don't normally have time for this sort of "passe-temps"!
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Instead, I invite you to look through the lens of childhood and into a 12-year-old French boy's "passe-temps."
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Instead, I invite you to look through the lens of childhood and into a 12-year-old French boy's "passe-temps."
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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I, Emphatic I, don't normally have time for this sort of "passe-temps"!
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Then they begin to while away the tedium of the road by asking questions, which passe-temps is not easily exhausted; for they are never satisfied till they know as much of you as you do of yourself.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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At this place, where the tide rises a full metre, the crew of the Mukhbir had built a jetty of rough boulders, by way of passe-temps and to prevent wading.
The Land of Midian 2003
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