lapin

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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

It was sometimes, mon lapin, mon lapin dore, mon chou, ma mere—they all sounded pleasantly to me, she spoke them so kindly.

From Elinor Wyllys, Volume 1 by Cooper, Susan Fenimore

I've fixed it all right, mon lapin," he said; "if the worst comes to the worst they'll bail you out with the Mess funds.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 by Various

This she kept to herself; it was her wise policy to remain douce comme un lapin blanc, which she did.

From There was a King in Egypt by Lorimer, Norma