sacre
Americaninterjection
Example Sentences
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Helping him birth this baby is -- sacre bleu! -- another familiar name with a French-bistro background: Scott Emerick, former owner/chef of Cremant, late of Madrona.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2010
I don't know whether Stravinsky said that line about the door, but he did say this: "I am the vessel through which Le sacre du printemps passed."
From Slate • Jul. 27, 2010
Margot is a monstre sacre, and Hunt plays her to the hilt.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2010
The name is thought to have been derived from the French oath sacre.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
He awoke with a start and a sacre, clapping his hand to his singed head.
From The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea by Ollivant, Alfred
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