trouvaille
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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
She broke into her sister's confidences now; she announced her trouvaille and did battle for it bravely.
From The Reverberator by Henry James
"My dear, you are a perfect trouvaille," Miss Crawley would say.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
She was evidently a valuable discovery, one of their new treasures, a rare trouvaille of the Mitchells.
From Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson
I once found a summer duck's nest within a quarter of a mile of our house, but such a trouvaille would be impossible now as Kidd's treasure.
From My Garden Acquaintance by James Russell Lowell
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