trouvaille

Example Sentences

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"My dear, you are a perfect trouvaille," Miss Crawley would say.

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace

The gown I had already discovered—a trouvaille and genuinely of the epoch; an enticing pink silk with glowing shadows.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

Your best trouvaille on that expedition was hidden in those undreamed-of nights of moonlight and music.

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Van Dyke, Henry

It's only that poor Biddy's belle trouvaille has got a heart.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

Pray let me know, at your leisure, what you think of this trouvaille.

From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Lang, Andrew