trouvaille

[ French troo-vee ]

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.

Example Sentences

Your best trouvaille on that expedition was hidden in those undreamed-of nights of moonlight and music.

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The gown I had already discovered—a trouvaille and genuinely of the epoch; an enticing pink silk with glowing shadows.

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

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

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Toute trouvaille,vii as our authors aptly remark, procure une jouissance.

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