trouvaille

American  

[troo-vahy, troo-vay] / truˈvaɪ, truˈveɪ /

noun

1. French. a lucky discovery or a found treasure.

   The researcher described her experience finding a long-lost Sappho poem as the trouvaille of a lifetime.

   The flea market has plenty of junk, but there are always some veritable trouvailles: art, antiques, wood carvings, and far more.

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trouvaille

She was evidently a valuable discovery, one of their new treasures, a rare trouvaille of the Mitchells.

From Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson

The only odd trouvaille that ever fell to me was a clean copy of "La Journee Chretienne," with the name of Leon Gambetta, 1844, on its catholic fly-leaf.

From The Library by Andrew Lang

He presented it to an only languidly entertained neighborhood as a trouvaille of his own choice.

From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Two years later, this indefatigable friend spent some weeks at Simancas, where he unearthed many an interesting trouvaille.

From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

On this particular occasion, the day after the kardouon's trouvaille, Xaïloun actually found the usually wide-awake animal sleeping.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury