lapin

Example Sentences

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New Yorkers raving over slowly braised lapin, complaining about the too small holes in their bread and cheeses!

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016

He remains the same man as he of whom the brave Commander Bravida used to say: "He's a lapin..."

From Tartarin On The Alps by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

Fable.—Compos�e a l'�ge de 13 ans, par Napoleon I. C�sar, chien d'arr�t renomm�, Mais trop enfl� de son m�rite, Tennait arr�t� dans son g�te Un malheureux lapin de peur inanim�.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe

"Je t'ai offert huit sous, tu sais, lapin!"

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman

In France it is the rabbit's nest, "nid le lapin," that people sometimes discover.

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)