Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cabbage.
- noun In dressmaking, a small, close rosette of any suitable material: so called from the crumpling of its loops of ribbon or lace, which resemble the crinkled leaves of a cabbage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cabbage.
- noun A kind of light pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cream.
- noun A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's dress.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various types of cabbage
- noun puff filled with cream or custard
- noun the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism
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Examples
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I have a friend who always says to me,,,,Au revoir mon petite chou, which is rather funny as I’m quite fat.
growing pains 2006
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I would have left "le chou en question" somewhere along a Sicilian or an Italian field and it would have carried on with its rotting process without upsetting anyone.
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Or perhaps badly translated mandarin? chou ni ma di bei hui dan!
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"And your mom would like to keep the cabbage ..." he explained, referring to the 7-day-old chou (one of the many garden gifts from our landlord, and while it was easy to know how to prepare the eggplants — as for that smelly chou ... what to do, what to do?).
antiques 2010
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"And your mom would like to keep the cabbage ..." he explained, referring to the 7-day-old chou (one of the many garden gifts from our landlord, and while it was easy to know how to prepare the eggplants — as for that smelly chou ... what to do, what to do?).
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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"And your mom would like to keep the cabbage ..." he explained, referring to the 7-day-old chou (one of the many garden gifts from our landlord, and while it was easy to know how to prepare the eggplants — as for that smelly chou ... what to do, what to do?).
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So, there you are, "chouette" is not a little cabbage, therefore, it's not a diminutive of the word "chou".
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A while back, Carla Bruni made headlines by calling her husband, President Sarkozy, my cabbage, mon chou.
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In Yang Li-chou's beautiful documentary, Beyond The Arctic, the three men who represented Taiwan as the Team Gamania Foundation in the 2008 Polar Challenge are:
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In Yang Li-chou's beautiful documentary, Beyond The Arctic, the three men who represented Taiwan as the Team Gamania Foundation in the 2008 Polar Challenge are:
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