gare
Americannoun
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gares
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gare
1535–45; < Anglo-French, variant of Old French gard, jart
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The gare de Clermont-Ferrand says there is no place salon-lit or coupé-lit free in the train to-night.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
I find the following: "Arces, Varces, Granges et Comiers, Tel les regarde qui ni les ose ferier, Mais gare la queue d'Alleman et des Brangiers."
Mr. Bulwer's philosophy is like a French palace—it is tawdry, shady, splendid; but, gare aux nez sensibles! one is always reminded of the sewer.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
Of course I dare not have the blemish renewed or gare the first puff of wind—besides it is too characteristic.
From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
The fourth night I went to Marseilles and telegraphed to the gare and the police at Nice.
From The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
"Fuenf hoonderd repels hold de down, One hoonderd strong are ve; Who gares a tam for all de odds Vhen men so dirsty pe."
From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland
Below the quais are deposed nine ports, or gares, each devoted to a special class of merchandise, as coal, wine, produce, timber, etc.
From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Nine railways entered the city, and the “Ceinture” or girdle railway, which was to bind the various gares, was already conceived.
From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
I have never entered one of these gares to take a train that I have not seen hundreds of soldiers entering, leaving, waiting; sometimes lying asleep on the hard floor, always on the benches.
From The Living Present by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The passive of this tense is either:— mî, tî, etc., a gares, or mî, tî, etc., a vê keres.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
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