corbeille
Americannoun
plural
corbeillesExample Sentences
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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
That inconsiderate wretch of a Marquis de Ferrier—to spoil such a corbeille as this!
From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
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
“Garçon, put a roast fowl and some pâtés, with a loaf of bread and a bottle of Bordeaux, into a corbeille and send it down to the port.”
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas
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