cuve

[kyv]

noun

French.

plural

cuves 

1. a wine vat.

Example Sentences

There was always some kind of liquid on the flow, from the press to a cuve, or the removal of residue to the waste tank.

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Authorities say 43-year-old Cuve Harding, of Hockessin, was arrested at New Castle County Police Headquarters on Tuesday and is accused of stealing, and later crashing, a Delaware City Fire Department pickup truck from the poice headquarters.

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Lors les commeres entrent, elles desjunent, elles disnent, elles menjent a raassie, maintenant boivent au lit de la commere, maintenant à la cuve, et confondent des biens et du vin plus qu’il n’en entreroit en une bote; et à l’aventure il vient à barrilz ou n’en y a que une pipe.

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Not even in the Chinonnais, sacred earth though that be, was the press made that caused its juices to be poured into the cuve, nor was the humming of its fermentation heard in any of the good cellars of the lower Touraine.

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Peins-nous ces feux, qu’en secret tu redoutes, Quand sur ton sein il cuve son nectar, Ces feux dont s’indignaient les vo�tes O� plane encor l’aigle du grand C�sar.

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