trouvaille
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Your best trouvaille on that expedition was hidden in those undreamed-of nights of moonlight and music.
From Days Off And Other Digressions by Henry Van Dyke
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
All the men frankly desired to see the trouvaille at close quarters, and most of the women wanted a peep, though they weren't brutally open about it.
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Pray let me know, at your leisure, what you think of this trouvaille.
From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang
Horace Walpole, who sat near by, joined in the laugh and jeer as soon as he found that the "trouvaille," as he called it, "of his friend Chatterton" was in question.
From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Washington Irving
