trouvaille

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That process took Mallory Shaw, a luxury travel adviser and the owner of the Virtuoso-affiliated Trouvaille Yacht & Travel, around 10 minutes when she popped into a pharmacy between the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and the Tuileries Gardens in Paris.

From New York Times

A space called Trouvaille opened in Omaha last year.

From Washington Times

Two years later, this indefatigable friend spent some weeks at Simancas, where he unearthed many an interesting trouvaille.

From Project Gutenberg

Moreover, the interest felt by the Indians in this trouvaille had nothing to do with its historic suggestiveness, but because their readily-inflamed imagination prefigured 422boundless stores of maize yet to be lighted upon and made available, without their having to labour for them!

From Project Gutenberg

It is not recorded that Adams, who found the colossal antediluvian pachyderm in a thick-ribbed mountain of Siberian ice, ran wild over his trouvaille; but Schmidl, in describing the natural history of the caves of the Karst, speaks of an eminent entomologist as "der glückliche Entdecker," the happy discoverer of a new coleopteron, in one of those dim caverns.

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