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French leave

[french leev] / ˈfrɛntʃ ˈliv /


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My efforts at French leave me at once inert and exhausted, as though I’ve been dog-paddling in a pool of standing water.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

Spain sent Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to make the French leave Florida.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

"If the French leave, there will be no protection," he says.

From Time Magazine Archive

The colonel is on French leave from Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence agency.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many persons on board had never been back to Louisville since they took French leave of the same place; whilst others had numerous friends and relations whom they greatly desired to see.

From Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro by Fowler, Charles H.




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