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

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

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Henry Van Dyke

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

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

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

It's only that poor Biddy's belle trouvaille has got a heart.

From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan

Of course, after such a trouvaille and such a subscription, he relished his breakfast exceedingly.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin