trouvaille

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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

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

Mais ... c’est dans le vieux drame grec comme dans la comédie du maître français une trouvaille de génie....

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

The only odd trouvaille that ever fell to me was a clean copy of "La Journee Chretienne," with the name of Leon Gambetta, 1844, on its catholic fly-leaf.

From The Library by Lang, Andrew

The trifling incident of the goat's rescue and the chain's trouvaille, slight as they were, still were of service to him.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida