trouvaille

American  

[troo-vee] / tru vi /

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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Example Sentences

I wondered how I could make the most of my trouvaille, and decided that I would call at your hotel with them that afternoon.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

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

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Van Dyke, Henry

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 Lang, Andrew

They were all very kind and enthusiastic, and talked eagerly to each other of a new star, a trouvaille.

From Christine by Cholmondeley, Alice

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 Saintsbury, George