corbeille
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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
Two of the Muses, the Speciosa and Paravisogna, or bread-tree plant, were raising their light spiry trunks out of a corbeille taller than a life-guardsman.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various
M. de Vaissiere settled a dot upon his fiancée, and ordered a trousseau and a corbeille, not forgetting the cachemire.
From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
He ordered the corbeille from Paris, and contained himself with what patience he could until it arrived; then they were married.
From The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate
In field-works, baskets or corbeilles are used, to be filled with earth, and placed by one another, to cover the men from the enemy's shot.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
First the small baskets are filled, then the big corbeilles, and then the sacks.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
All the personnel came in to see me and brought their New Year's present—4 pretty corbeilles for bonbons.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King
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