Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Shipwreck.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Shipwreck; ruin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
shipwreck ;ruin
Etymologies
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Examples
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Apres tu t'changes en taenia géant et tu dois te faire tuer par des survivants d'un naufrage!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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But presently the same lady informed me further: “He has come here amongst us un naufrage.”
The Arrow of Gold 2006
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Philemon, le naufrage du "A" /Paris ; New York : Dargaud, c2003.
Archive 2005-07-01 David S. Carter 2005
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Philemon, le naufrage du "A" /Paris ; New York : Dargaud, c2003.
New Library Comics: Week of July 4, 2005 David S. Carter 2005
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Française jetée sur la côté occidentale de l'Afrique, à la suite du naufrage de la Frégate la Meduse.
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"_Il serait fâcheux, Mademoiselle, lorsqu 'on a failli faire naufrage, de se noyer_" -- and, in want of a word, Mr. Raleigh ignominiously descended to his vernacular -- "with a lee-lurch."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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Hollande aux Indes, avoit fait naufrage sur les cotes d'une Terre
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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Je les remercie de quatre mois de bonheur échappés au naufrage de la vie; je les remercie de m'avoir aimée.
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But presently the same lady informed me further: "He has come here amongst us un naufrage."
The Arrow of Gold Joseph Conrad 1890
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ROME - Les gardes-côtes italiens ont annoncé samedi avoir retrouvé un nouveau corps dans l'épave du paquebot "Costa Concordia", dont le naufrage près de l'île...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Chris Wimpress 2012
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