pourboire
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At any rate, M. Clemenceau was so excited that he forgot to give the usual pourboire to the female attendant who conducted him to his front seat in the fauteuils.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tartarin went up to give him a pourboire, as he had seen all the other tourists do.
From Tartarin On The Alps by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
It is hardly more than a pourboire, but it is desirable.
From A Diplomatic Adventure by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
In France the pourboire is a veritable tax, as it is in Italy and in the Latin countries.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain
The matter is then arbitrated by the driver who accepts as client the one who offers the largest pourboire.
From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood
But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were a rather subdued party in the train; the conversation mostly turned on the subject of pourboires.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
My father-in-law thought it cost too much—my toilettes, the necessary outlay, and especially the pourboires.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
A bored young waiter, with little to hope for in the way of pourboires, ambled off in quest of our food.
From The Motor Maid by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
Americans were scarce this season, and fortes pourboires few and far between.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
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