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s'il vous plaît

American  
[seel voo ple] / sil vu ˈplɛ /

interjection

French.
  1. if you please; please.


s'il vous plaît British  
/ sil vu plɛ /
  1. if you please; please

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Jim, if you’re out there, levez-vous, s’il vous plaît.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017

By Posted Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at 1:26 PM ET Where, s’il vous plaît, is the Brigitte Bardot of today?

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2013

And I spent the first few days of that course actually saying, "répétez s'il vous plaît, répétez s'il vous plaît," asking the instructors to please repeat what they were saying.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2012

"Hôtel de Paris, s'il vous plaît," she answered.

From The Guests Of Hercules by Bracker, M. Leone

I checked myself on the point of replying, pretended to falter, and then muttered in the worst French I could devise on the spur of the moment: “Parlez-vous Anglais, s’il vous plaît, Madame?”

From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen

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