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devoir

[duh-vwahr, dev-wahr, duh-vwar] / dəˈvwɑr, ˈdɛv wɑr, dəˈvwar /










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Quand le burkini est apparu, j’étais heureuse pour ma sœur, qui était en vacances et pouvait enfin jouer sur la plage avec ses enfants plutôt que de devoir rester à l’ombre.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2016

From the polar heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Tell me what were the faults of that devoir?" she asked.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

Strip him to-morrow of his scarlet, and he will do his devoir as nobly in the white jacket of the Austrian grenadier or the brown one of the Portuguese cazador.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

Heureux qui se fait une loi De son devoir qu'il aime, et qu'il veut toujours suivre.

From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.




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