pommes frites
Example Sentences
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Even after 10 on a school night, there are salty stacks of pommes frites on every table.
From New York Times
“My wife, Isabel, and I go regularly to a Belgian restaurant, Et Voila!, and order the casserole de moules with pommes frites. We lived in Brussels for 16 years and one of my sons was born there.”
From Washington Post
The ricotta, clean and white; the sage as crispy as pommes frites.
From The Guardian
Compared to the dreams-you-wake-up-from-sweating that come from Salvador Dalí or Max Ernst, Magritte’s art goes down as easily as the quintessential Belgian meal of mussels, pommes frites, and a mug of Stella Artois.
The use of French terminology may not have seemed like a total gamble for Ana's menu-writers — after all, plenty of folks have heard of pommes frites and can guess that the dish would contain some kind of potato.
From Washington Post
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