bibliothèque
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I need hardly remind my readers that the French word bibliothèque has the same double meaning.
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
I visited the bibliothèque, which was haunted by a fragrance intoxicating to booklovers, of dead centuries, leather bindings, and parchment.
From The Princess Passes by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
No 307; L. Delisle, “Notice sur un manuscrit de l’abbaye de Luxeuil copié en 625” in Notices et Extraits des manuscrits de la bibliothèque nationale, XXXI.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)
An Italian translation, presumably from the French, was printed three or four times from 1552 to 1622.13 A summary of the story is given in Mélanges tirés d’une grande bibliothèque, by E. V. 1780, pp.
From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall
In the corner diagonally opposite, appeared, in direct family communion, the properties of the kitchen and the bibliothèque.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
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