foudre

[ foo-druh ]

noun

, French.

, plural fou·dres [foo, -d, r, uh].

1. a large cask for maturing, storing, and transporting wine.

Example Sentences

He had done the same thing a hundred times before; but this, he told himself, was the coup de foudre—the thunderbolt.

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If you meet with any superlatively good, and not else, pray send over a 'foudre' of it, and write to him.

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The small shot went whistling through La Foudre's shrouds with some slight damage to her canvas.

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La Foudre under cover of the darkness had struck away to The northeast with every rag of canvas on her yards.

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It was le coup de foudre of a French writer on the affections—M. Stendhal.

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