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
I thought it strange, but I called out the order to Alphonse and bade him promise a good pourboire.
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
He took his pourboire and left the rest, just as he treated monsieur.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Out of the crowd which had collected a loutish youth was chosen; a pourboire promised; and after many mutual politenesses we were permitted to teuf-teuf onto the sacred soil of France.
From My Friend the Chauffeur by Frederic Lowenheim
But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma.
From Time Magazine Archive
This solicitude evaporated in what Bismarck disdainfully called the policy of pourboires, the policy of tips and pickings—scraps and slips of territory to be given to France under the diplomatic name of compensation.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
She said that in their salle à manger almost all the maids and valets belonging to the guests gave pourboires.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
It seems that the Emperor's attention had been railed to the many very disagreeable articles in the newspapers on the subject of the extravagant pourboires exacted at Compiègne.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
Tell your father-in-law that the question of pourboires has been settled now and forever.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
