- a variation of corbeil.
corbeille
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It includes Claude Monet’s water-lily painting “Nympheas en fleur,” estimated to sell for $50 million-$70 million, and Pablo Picasso’s “Fillette a la corbeille fleurie,” which has an estimate of $90 million-$120 million.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2018
For a tumultuous 30 minutes every afternoon, traders mill around a closed-off corbeille on the Paris Bourse to buy and sell gold for French banks.
From Time Magazine Archive
She brought in Doctor Chantry as she had brought me, to behold the corbeille; covering her father's folly with transparent fabrications, which anybody but the literal Briton must have seen through.
From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
In France, this gift is called the corbeille de mariage, and the rule there is to make its value ten per cent. of the bride's private fortune.
From Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. by Frost, Sarah Annie
Oh, haven't you been in Paris long enough to know what a corbeille is?
From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
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