tout à fait
Americanadverb
adverb
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"The merest John Trot in a week you shall see Bien poli, bien frizé, tout à fait un Marquis."
From English Travellers of the Renaissance by Clare Howard
But Mary Magdalen was the founder of it all:— Elle eut, en ce moment solennel, une part d'action tout à fait hors ligne.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
"But though we could not seize his person," said the Captain, "we have debarrassed ourselves tout à fait from his pursuit; I hope, therefore, Miss Larolles will make a revoke of her apprehensions."
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
The poet, moreover, speaks of bronze tools, axes and knives, in other parts of the Iliad; neither tools nor bronze tools constitute un sujet tout à fait nouveau.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
But the Turkish doctor refused, assuring him, in French, that it was tout à fait stérilizé, absolutely sterilized.
From A Prisoner in Turkey by John Still
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