trouvaille
Example Sentences
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Your best trouvaille on that expedition was hidden in those undreamed-of nights of moonlight and music.
From Days Off And Other Digressions by Henry Van Dyke
He presented it to an only languidly entertained neighborhood as a trouvaille of his own choice.
From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett
They were all very kind and enthusiastic, and talked eagerly to each other of a new star, a trouvaille.
From Christine by Alice Cholmondeley
A jeweler was accordingly summoned, who, by the application of acids and a file, soon proved conclusively to the authorities that the precious trouvaille was a worthless piece of imitation.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
She broke into her sister's confidences now; she announced her trouvaille and did battle for it bravely.
From The Reverberator by Henry James
