foudre
Americannoun
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foudres
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Can a muralist and product designer infographic his way into telling a compelling love story, from coup de foudre to coeur brisé?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2023
Later that decade, Leaf met Robert Frank, already a star photographer, in what she described as a coup de foudre: “I saw him, and I said, ‘There he is.’
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
Or all at once, in a coup de foudre, a lightning strike of, “Hey, this is my town!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
Reluctantly, he takes on the case of Vanessa: for the first time, of course, he actually falls, coup de foudre.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2010
It was all very quiet, but it was the coup de foudre.
From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton
He ages the wine in foudres, big old barrels of French and Slavonian oak.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2019
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