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Chat amongst yourselves until Chris in Paris wakes up to enlighten you with his outre-mer wisdom (unless Michael in NYC gets bored, then he may start blogging shortly).
09/24/2004 2004
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Who, writing in French or in any language, _outre-mer_, does better, or as well, as Holliday?
Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888
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Her whole record outre-mer was of a piece with the enslavement and extermination of the gentle Caribs, with which it began.
History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880
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In this petit coin of Swans we shall, through English spectacles, look at l'Hexagone (as France métropolitaine is often called, to exclude the DOM -- the départements outre-mer -- overseas departments that remain part of France).
unknown title 2009
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In this petit coin of Swans we shall, through English spectacles, look at l'Hexagone (as France métropolitaine is often called, to exclude the DOM -- the départements outre-mer -- overseas departments that remain part of France).
unknown title 2009
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_outre-mer_, even by Galilee's wave, and dwelt as an Arab in the desert.
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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Especially the sweet bunny rabbit that wriggled his ears and loved Gralice, the princesse d’ outre-mer.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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