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Examples
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This might mean an elaborate cheese display presided over by a matre fromager to explain flavor pairings and a sommelier to assist with wines.
Hostess with the mostess: 3 planners offer New Year's Eve party tips 2010
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Harry passed the matre d a bunch of tens and asked for a table by the window.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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Harry passed the matre d a bunch of tens and asked for a table by the window.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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Harry passed the matre d a bunch of tens and asked for a table by the window.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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I smile, as Randy takes me by the hand and we follow the matre d to our table.
Beneath the Bruises Dywane D. Birch 2008
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I smile, as Randy takes me by the hand and we follow the matre d to our table.
Beneath the Bruises Dywane D. Birch 2008
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Duae Veneres duo amores; quarum una antiquior et sine matre, coelo nata, quam coelestem Venerem nuncupamus; altera vero junior a Jove et Dione prognata, quam vulgarem Venerem vocamus.
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Note 104: Paris, 519, in the section entitled "De judicio reliquorum Judaeorum," in which the mother returns, demanding justice: "… matre dicti pueri contra ipsos de tali morte appellationem suam coram rege constanter prosequente, Deus ultionum Dominus dignam pro meritis reddidit retributionem."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Patre et matre se singultu orbos censebant, quod meo contubernio carendum esset.
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And I walked by the matre-de and he said go back out, they're still applauding.
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