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 sang—but now more violently, and as though with a worthy protest:Le lièvre et le lapin, Quand c'est bien cuit, ça fait du bien.

From Hills and the Sea by Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

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

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