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  • Larousse = rival dictionary to Le Petit Robert, but La rousse = the red-headed woman

    lola 2007

  • Bon moi comme gratteux je prends Judy Nails une belle rousse ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • Est-ce que la secrétaire courroucée de ton école est rousse et porte un prénom contenant les lettres AOL ?

    Récit de rêve — Climb to the Stars 2005

  • Est-ce que la secrétaire courroucée de ton école est rousse et porte un prénom contenant les lettres AOL ?

    Récit de rêve — Climb to the Stars 2005

  • While we wait for La grande rousse to return from hiatus or, as she puts it, activités carnetières limitées, there is consolation in the form of Les Amoureux du français, a language blog run by Fabienne Couturier, an editor at La Presse, and Paul Roux, "conseiller et chroniqueur linguistique."

    languagehat.com: LES AMOUREUX DU FRANÇAIS. 2005

  • MM: Ah, now I remember better -- I think it was La grande rousse where I saw it before.

    languagehat.com: EURODICATOM. 2004

  • Il a assassiné ce pape russe, monsieur, il lui arracha sa barbe rousse pour la vendre à un artiste en cheveux au pont de

    A Raw Youth 2003

  • That made Père sigh and talk about the lune rousse.

    On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes Mildred Aldrich 1890

  • By mingling the masculine (le roux) and feminine (la rousse) French words for redhead, the band was named LaRoux - a nod to Jackson's red hair and androgynous appearance.

    quotes « WordPress.com Tag Feed Stuff Queer People Need To Know 2010

  • "It iss difficult to believe that anything could rousse thesse creaturess to ssuch violent action.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

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