Always eager to distinguish himself, he turns this by-then standard pilgrimage into an original, and appropriately culinary one: presumably mustering the same lady-killing charm as his sosie Mirobolant, he convinces La Signora Grossetti, the Buonaparte family's 83-year old housekeeper, to show him the kitchen, "a request having never before been made by the numerous travellers who daily visit" (40). From Wordnik.com. [Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef] Reference
Each known elementary particle is associated with a hypothetical complementary particle (recalling, surely unintentionally, "sosie sesthers," (FW, p. 3). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
Sir Tristram, violer d’amores, fr’over the short sea, had passen-core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all’s fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Laurent Boyer, Cyril Hanouna, Eugène Saccomano), ainsi que Ben Jack'son (sosie de Michael. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Bestselling books the week of 7/29/10 according to IndieBound*] Reference
French sosie = ` twin '). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
These passencore, Armorica, wielderfight, penisolate, gorgios, mumper, bellowsed, mishe, tauftauf, thuartpeatrick,venissoon, vanessy, sosie, sethers, twone, nathandjoe haven’t made it anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » How Much Did Shakespeare Embiggen the English Vocabulary?] Reference
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