trouvaille
Example Sentences
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The only odd trouvaille that ever fell to me was a clean copy of "La Journee Chretienne," with the name of Leon Gambetta, 1844, on its catholic fly-leaf.
From The Library by Andrew Lang
The gown I had already discovered—a trouvaille and genuinely of the epoch; an enticing pink silk with glowing shadows.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
The trifling incident of the goat's rescue and the chain's trouvaille, slight as they were, still were of service to him.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
For the while I leave the reader to guess how and in what corner of the coast I happened on the following pendant to Mr. Dobell's trouvaille.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"My dear, you are a perfect trouvaille," Miss Crawley would say.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
