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rapids

NOUN
high-current part of river
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Gourmands are lining up for McCroissants at American-patterned restaurants rapides from sleazy St. Denis to the Boulevard St. Germain.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rapides from Marseilles and the Riviera all stopped at the ancient city of the Popes.

From Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo by Le Queux, William

But, said Dupont, with other blasphemy, all the world knew that the sacred rapides had no sacred accommodations for sacred passengers of the second and third class.

From Alias the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph




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