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  • LE compactage supprime les "trous" de tes fichiers et ne supprime aucunmessage.

    eggheadcafe.com articles 2010

  • "Vous voulez de l'Emmental sans trous?" the flummoxed fromager questioned.

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • In recipes, on the list of ingredients, you may see: 150g de Gruyère râpé = 150g of grated Gruyère cheese -- no trouble to grate a piece of cheese "sans trous".

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • A collective nod could be seen from beyond the cheesemaker's vitrine as the clients in the fromagerie agreed that les trous are, indeed, la meilleur partie!

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Je voudrais de l'Emmental (m) = I would like some Emmental sans trous (un trou) = without holes

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • I will have to ask my fromager, Michel Lemmerling at Bon Appetite in Princeton, NJ if there is an Emmental san trous like Jeanne found in Paris.

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • By 8000 trous par Jo Meesters | Blog Esprit-Design: tendance Design/Deco on August 27, 2009 at 7: 54 am

    Bucharest Scenography Apartment by AA Studio 2009

  • If you always wondered about the difference between Emmental and Gruyère, you know now - visually speaking - it's a question of “trous” for the first one and “pas de trous” for the other one.

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Avec trous, sans trous -- I'll take good French cheese any way I can get it.

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • "Le vrai Gruyère n'a pas de trous" (= true Gruyère cheese doesn't have any hole) ... "mais l'Emmental a plein de trous" (but the Emmental cheese is full of them).

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

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