Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
savage .
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By the way, I have to wonder now if my alma mater, Knox College, knew about Ayers 'manifesto 15 years ago when it changed the school mascot from the Siwash (it's supposed to be a racial epithet offensive to native Americans, derived from the French word sauvage - "savage") to the Prairie Fire - the title of Ayers' little book.
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Note: The word sauvage was meant to denote someone or a group who had not reached the point of civilzation or religion as Europeans.
Jeanne Mance de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Note: The word sauvage was meant to denote someone or a group who had not reached the point of civilzation or religion as Europeans.
Archive 2007-12-16 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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But he did understand the word sauvage, having heard it so often in the French fort of Detroit when he went there as a boy with Ta-Kumsaw.
Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998
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Angelo Mercado, a doctoral student in Indo-European studies at UCLA, has a blog called sauvage noble "an austronesian's adventures in altertumswissenschaft and indogermanistik" that makes me nostalgic for my graduate days spent rummaging in old books in foreign languages.
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Mr. Pound has since apologized, making the point that his understanding of the term "sauvage" was deficient.
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Mr. Pound has since apologized, making the point that his understanding of the term "sauvage" was deficient.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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If he'd meant the "wild and untamed" sense of "sauvage" and he was speaking French, and he was speaking French correctly, he would have said "un pays sauvage".
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Un article qui montre du doigt un nécessaire changement de mentalité dans les départements IT: nombre des outils que les employés utilisent pour améliorer leur productivité ont en fait été introduits de façon "sauvage".
The Shadow IT Department (and Shadow HR) — Climb to the Stars 2007
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..andy pandy...i didn't expect anyone to 'get it' but "sauvagnon" comes from the french 'sauvage' or wild, if you will...
Repentance: Back-Pedaling Under Duress BikeSnobNYC 2009
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