ciseaux
Americannoun
plural
ciseauxEtymology
Origin of ciseaux
1890–95; < French: literally, scissors
Example Sentences
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Again, when the lover, in a ballad common to France and to Scotland, cuts the winding-sheet from about his living bride—"il tira ses ciseaux d'or fin."
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Ciseaux—The scissors step: A point and swing with one foot while hopping twice on the other.
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And that reminds me of the question you asked in your last letter about Jules Ciseaux.
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They were put there by a half-crazy old man who built the place, by the name of Ciseaux.
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The gate had been closed for years on account of a terrible quarrel in the Ciseaux family, but at last something Joyce did helped to make it up.
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