pourboire
Americannoun
PLURAL
pourboiresnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of pourboire
Literally, “for drinking”
Example Sentences
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For instance, the French term for a gratuity, he noted, is “pourboire,” or roughly translated, “for drink.”
From New York Times
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 Project Gutenberg
"Do you want to give me a lift with the biggest pieces?" asked the messenger; "my orders are to give you a good pourboire."
From Project Gutenberg
It’s not the custom at Geneva to give a pourboire for so short a drive.
From Project Gutenberg
But he, glaring at me with his dim eyes, remarked, sneering, "So you want a pourboire because you have supported your sick mother and not poisoned your brother?"
From Project Gutenberg
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