There was a clochard sitting on a milk crate in the alley behind the hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Babylon Nights] Reference
Would we prefer that Emma Bovary didn't swallow the poison and instead became a clochard, cadging francs at the agricultural fair?. From Wordnik.com. [July 2006] Reference
And the ever-present clown, but this clown resembles a Parisian clochard/street person whose attitude does not evoke sympathy or empathy — just a sense of unease; not unlike the unease that is created by four men with two invisible trampolines separated by an enormous wall that they keep landing on top of, only to be airborne again in one direction or the other. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Cirque Berzerk!] Reference
Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show?. From Wordnik.com. [Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing] Reference
Wallpapers / Published: 03-02-2009, 00: 19 clochard posted on 03-02-2009, 00: 39. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
Mental instability was probably the main reason for this, and he was occasionally spotted by other musicians throughout the ensuing decades living as a clochard. From Wordnik.com. [bagatellen] Reference
Joyce at least responds with paternal solicitude when Beckett is stabbed in the chest by a crazed clochard and intervenes to secure him a private room at the hospital. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
He's the same age as I am, and I remember the character who used to busk on the cinema queues on the Left bank, a clochard who blew a wild sound out of a length of garden hose looped round his neck. From Wordnik.com. [wordsandmusic] Reference
They included the sparsely coifed ballard, the squinting, weak-eyed blincard (who could also be ` one who deliberately ignored reality '), the hobbling mendicant limpard or clochard (from French clocher ` to limp'), the stammering mafflard, and the scallards and scabbards who suffered from some skin disease. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4] Reference
Jean Renoir's 1932 satire about the paired hypocrisies of bien-pensant humanism and mal-pensant indifference is centered on a satyr: Boudu (Michel Simon), a dog-bearded clochard, who, after losing his shaggy black poodle and meeting with insults and condescension, flings himself into the Seine from Paris's Pont des Arts. Lestingois (Charles Granval), a middle-aged bookseller-a civic-minded liberal intellectual-flies from his shop, rescues Boudu from the currents, and brings him into his home. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
The clochard was leaning against the hotel wall, watching them, where he’d been the whole time. From Wordnik.com. [Babylon Nights] Reference
“All one and the same,” said the clochard. From Wordnik.com. [Babylon Nights] Reference
“Pathetic,” the clochard said as they passed. From Wordnik.com. [Babylon Nights] Reference
"We had huge expectations, artistically wise, from this recording ... and we have not been disappointed at all by our favorite clochard of depressive dark music. From Wordnik.com. [Metal Underground .com] Reference
18 comments, 3 recommends chthonic no comments, no recommends clochard. From Wordnik.com. [TPMCafe] Reference
Claude le clochard. From Wordnik.com. [competition time] Reference
And letting a young clochard in for a ’shower’. From Wordnik.com. [kissing the frog] Reference
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