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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Ethnol.) The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf.
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Examples
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- Gueule-de-loup = Snapdragon (veut dire visages de loups) je voulais dire que ces fleurs aux noms négatifs devraient plutôt inspirer la suspicion et un peu de peur à Smokey mais lui, qui est très poétique, ne voit que l'aspect positif des fleurs: leur finesse, délicatesse et senteur, ce qui le fait rêver et non cauchemarder.
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We see the focus for this film, Emilie Dequenne, playing our cinematic mentirosa and who I only know from Le pacte des loups, Brotherhood of the Wolf for us non-Parisians, secretly cuts her own face with a knife and cries wolf, ironically.
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Gueule-de-loup= Snapdragon veut dire visages de loups je voulais dire que ces fleurs aux noms négatifs devraient plutôt inspirer la suspicion et un peu de peur à Smokey mais lui, qui est très poétique, ne voit que l'aspect positif des fleurs: leur finesse, délicatesse et senteur, ce qui le fait rêver et non cauchemarder.
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Femmes qui courent avec les loups- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Archive 2009-04-27 2009
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Caillou comes to this project mainly as a designer and advertising artist with little comics background, and she seems to be on board mainly because she already contributed to the last Prima Linea multi-cartoonist animated project, Loulou et autres loups, a children's film which also featured Richard McGuire.
Peur(s) du noir Ed Howard 2008
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Caillou comes to this project mainly as a designer and advertising artist with little comics background, and she seems to be on board mainly because she already contributed to the last Prima Linea multi-cartoonist animated project, Loulou et autres loups, a children's film which also featured Richard McGuire.
Archive 2008-03-01 Ed Howard 2008
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It had formerly been her delight, so she affirmed, to hear the loups-degorge (rouges-gorges) chanter dans les ogrepines (aubepines) — to hear the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees.
Les Miserables 2008
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Published in 1940 just before restrictions on Jewish authors came into effect, Les Chiens et les loups (The Dogs and the Wolves) has as its heroine Ada Stiller, a Jewish girl who grows up in the Ukraine but moves to Paris, where she lives from hand to mouth painting scenes of the world she has left behind, scenes too "Dostoevskian" in tone for French tastes.
Irène Némirovsky: The Dogs & the Wolves Coetzee, J.M. 2008
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One governor of New France complained that Acadians were “demirépublicains,” and very different from the stereotypical moutons (sheep) of Quebec and the loups (wolves) of Montreal.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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One governor of New France complained that Acadians were “demirépublicains,” and very different from the stereotypical moutons (sheep) of Quebec and the loups (wolves) of Montreal.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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