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
He took his pourboire and left the rest, just as he treated monsieur.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
The matter is then arbitrated by the driver who accepts as client the one who offers the largest pourboire.
From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood
Paul's chauffeur said to himself as he pocketed an extravagant pourboire.
From High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn by Anonymous
Finally Tomass' compromised on one-lira-fifty per hour, with fifty centesimi pourboire.
From The Lure of the Mask by Harrison Fisher
But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma.
From Time Magazine Archive
She said that in their salle à manger almost all the maids and valets belonging to the guests gave pourboires.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
A bored young waiter, with little to hope for in the way of pourboires, ambled off in quest of our food.
From The Motor Maid by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
We were a rather subdued party in the train; the conversation mostly turned on the subject of pourboires.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
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
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