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berceuse

noun as in lullaby

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"Impossible!" her vanity made reply, and the berceuse which she was playing assumed the character of a triumphal march.

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As she passed each corpse she knelt beside it and sang the foolish little berceuse that Poitou mothers sing to their babies.

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Doubtless she knew it too, as she sat there sewing on the frail garment which lay across her knee and singing blithely under her breath some air with cadence like a berceuse.

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I found him seated in a berceuse on the veranda.

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The plaintive melody of the berceuse rang in her ears on duty and off, till at last she could stand it no longer.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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