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  • #48 Sally: My S.O. has just told me that the word poubelle is an eponym.

    French masterclass 2007

  • "We'll need garbage bags, a broom, a dust-pan, and a plumeau," Tess said, handing me dozens of dusty old books that had been pulled out of a poubelle and given to me by a neighbor.

    la question mille francs - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • "We'll need garbage bags, a broom, a dust-pan, and a plumeau," Tess said, handing me dozens of dusty old books that had been pulled out of a poubelle and given to me by a neighbor.

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • I often see the man in pantoufles hanging out of a village poubelle.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • I often see the man in pantoufles hanging out of a village poubelle.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • I often see the man in pantoufles hanging out of a village poubelle.

    une pantoufle - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • I often see the man in pantoufles hanging out of a village poubelle.

    Characters 2009

  • "We'll need garbage bags, a broom, a dust-pan, and a plumeau," Tess said, handing me dozens of dusty old books that had been pulled out of a poubelle and given to me by a neighbor.

    la question mille francs - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • "We'll need garbage bags, a broom, a dust-pan, and a plumeau," Tess said, handing me dozens of dusty old books that had been pulled out of a poubelle and given to me by a neighbor.

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • I bought my first MacBook, and I was one happy girl -- especially after I got through the totally doable yet hair-pulling frustration period of throwing my PC knowledge into the poubelle and installing the latest Apple OS into my non-tech brain.

    Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Apple Mania! 2009

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  • la poubelle est plus belle.

    March 10, 2007

  • A surname which, thanks to M. Eugène-René Poubelle, now has the general meaning 'dustbin'. Of course, when I learnt the word back in school French class, I learnt only the general meaning, and now my mind will forever parse 'M. Poubelle' as 'Mr. Dustbin'.

    January 10, 2009

  • It means rubbish bin.

    March 3, 2013