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Français · Honduras: Des citoyens filment leur pays sous couvre-feu
Global Voices in English » Honduras: Citizen Videos from a Country Under Curfew 2009
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"Great Peter," which was placed above, the curfew or _couvre-feu_
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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"La Cloche du couvre-feu tinte le clas du jour qui expire."
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Then when the _couvre-feu_ had sounded, when all public places were closed, when the night watchman had begun his rounds, Déroulède knew that his quest for that night must remain fruitless.
I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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Licquet says that the allusion to the curfew -- or _couvre-feu_ -- as appears in the previous edition -- and which the reader well knows was established by the
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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'Curfew' (Fr. _couvre-feu_ = fire-cover), the bell that was rung at eight or nine o'clock in the evening as a signal that all fires and lights were to be extinguished.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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L'armée a aussitôt bouclé la zone entourant Bat Ayin et décrété un couvre-feu dans les villages palestiniens voisins, où la police perquisitionnait les maisons à la recherche du meurtrier.
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Malgré le couvre-feu instauré la veille par le gouvernement de coalition, en place depuis le mois de décembre dernier à l'issue, déjà, d'une séquence insurrectionnelle dans le pays, les manifestants thaïlandais sont bien décidés à poursuivre leur occupation du pavé.
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_couvre-feu_ bell of the days of William the Conqueror, a custom still kept up in many of the towns and hamlets of England, and some of our own towns and cities; and until recently the nine-o'clock bell greeted the ears of Bostonians, year in and year out.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various
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La cloche du couvre-feu sonne le glas du jour s’en allant
Literary translation (English) Rene Meertens 2010
jmjarmstrong commented on the word couvre-feu
JM wonders whatever happened to the good old craft of couvre-feu manufacture - scuttled probably!
July 8, 2010