écrevisse
Americannoun
PLURAL
écrevissesExample Sentences
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It was a true 'crayfish,' écrevisse, eight inches long, formed regularly with the thick powerful tail, the sharp serrated snout, the long antennæ, and the spider-like legs of the lobster tribe.
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Their shoes and slippers were either of red, violet, or crimson velvet, cut à barbe d'écrévisse.
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Examples familiar to everybody are crayfish from Fr. écrevisse, gilly-flower from Fr. giroflée, shame-faced for shamefast.
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We trust that the social qualities and the culinary refinements of the West Indians do not now march à l’écrevisse and progress à reculons.
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Again, philologers tell us, and no doubt rightly, that our ‘cray-fish’, or ‘craw-fish’, is the French ‘écrevisse’.
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