pourboire
Americannoun
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pourboires
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of pourboire
Literally, “for drinking”
Example Sentences
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At any rate, M. Clemenceau was so excited that he forgot to give the usual pourboire to the female attendant who conducted him to his front seat in the fauteuils.
From Time Magazine Archive
In France the pourboire is a veritable tax, as it is in Italy and in the Latin countries.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain
He took his pourboire and left the rest, just as he treated monsieur.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Moreover, milords upstairs would be sure to recompense him for an enforced vigil by a liberal pourboire.
From The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective by Louis Tracy
At length we reached a lonely farmhouse, at which, he implied, we were to alight; and we paid him his little bill, with the addition of a small pourboire.
From Norway by Beatrix Jungman
But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma.
From Time Magazine Archive
This solicitude evaporated in what Bismarck disdainfully called the policy of pourboires, the policy of tips and pickings—scraps and slips of territory to be given to France under the diplomatic name of compensation.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
Tell your father-in-law that the question of pourboires has been settled now and forever.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
Waiters' pourboires are eighty-five centimes at breakfast, and at dinner a franc.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain
Their chairs had already been moved away, and the leeward corner, which had seemed so much their own, was filled up by a small group of sailors who were quarrelling about the division of pourboires.
From Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange by John Oliver Hobbes
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