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Creux  n.  Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.






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"Creux" Quotes from Famous Books



... Potherie, La Houtan, Le Beau, Du Creux (Creuxius), Peter Kalm, Knox, Silliman, Ampere, Mrs. Moodie, Dickens, Lever, Anthony Trollope, Sala, Thoreau, Warburton, Marmier, Capt. Butler, Sir Charles Dilke, Henry Ward Beecher, have all left their impressions of the rocky citadel: let us ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

... l'aube dans les yeux, On a sa mere, on est des ecoliers joyeux, De petits hommes gais, respirant l'atmosphere A pleins poumons, aimes, libres, contents; que faire, Sinon de torturer quelque etre malheureux? Le crapaud se trainait au fond du chemin creux. C'etait l'heure ou des champs les profondeurs s'azurent. Fauve, il cherchait la nuit; les enfants l'apercurent Et crierent:—Tuons ce vilain animal, Et, puisqu'il est si laid, faisons-lui bien du ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo

... who had been down to the Creux Harbor, brought back the information that one of the Sark cutters was about to venture to make the passage across the Channel the next morning, to attend the Saturday market, if the wind did not ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton

... part Bord de blancs fraisiers ou de noires prunelles, Ou de l'oeil de la Vierge aux riantes prunelles, Dans le creux des fosss, ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield

... to spare, but I will give you a keg of apples," said the other. "I had it out of the Peter and Paul, the Falmouth boat that struck in Creux Bay." ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle

... quelque part Borde de blancs fraisiers ou de noires prunelles, Ou de l'oeil de la Vierge aux riantes prunelles, Dans le creux des fosses, a ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield

... called Immaculate Conception, had its principal seat at Ossossane, which had replaced Carhagouha, mentioned by Champlain. The French called it La Rochelle. Ossossane was the nearest village of the Iroquois territory. Father du Creux' map places it on the western coast of the ...
— The Makers of Canada: Champlain • N. E. Dionne



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