abondance
Britishnoun
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Widespread drought and record-breaking heatwaves have forced France to relax some of its famously strict rules on cheese production, with authorities announcing Wednesday special measures for abondance, beaufort and comte.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The call of abondance is, however, superseded by any other player declaring to make abondance in trumps, i.e. with the trump suit as it stands.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann
Robinson at home is not less wonderful and more agreeable even than Robinson abroad,—his abondance in literature equal to Macintosh,—in science you know out of sight superior to anybody.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare
The French may well exclaim, in speaking of him, "Quelle abondance!"
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare
On this text he would sometimes quote delightful old Rutebeuf: Je ne sai par ou je coumance, Tant ai de matyère abondance Por parleir de ma povretei.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
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