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
The words "coup de foudre" appear in the text.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2011
But the pathetic image of a forlorn and orphaned childhood, "un nid que la foudre a brisé," which it calls up, and the tone of brotherly affection, linger in one's memory.
From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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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