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
He took his pourboire and left the rest, just as he treated monsieur.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
The female Jehu showed to the other servants the pourboire she had received; it was a new silver piece.
From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai
"Do you want to give me a lift with the biggest pieces?" asked the messenger; "my orders are to give you a good pourboire."
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
Like the cocher of Paris they all expect and ask for a pourboire.
From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou
But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their chairs had already been moved away, and the leeward corner, which had seemed so much their own, was filled up by a small group of sailors who were quarrelling about the division of pourboires.
From Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange by John Oliver Hobbes
Americans were scarce this season, and fortes pourboires few and far between.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
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
Waiters' pourboires are eighty-five centimes at breakfast, and at dinner a franc.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain
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