quelque-chose

[ kel-kuh-shohz ]

noun

1. kickshaw.

Word History and Origins

Origin of quelque-chose¹

< French: something

Example Sentences

Quelque-chose de myst�rieux s'est li� dans l'esprit des Romains � l'incendie de St. Paul, et les gens � l'imagination de ce peuple parlent avec ce sombre plaisir qui tient � la m�lancolie, ce sentiment si rare en Italie, et si fr�quent en Allemagne.

From Project Gutenberg

D�s qu'un paysan s'approche de la table pour dicter quelque-chose, cinq ou six curieux se r�unissent officieusement autour de lui pour mieux entendre.

From Project Gutenberg

As soon as Leitert had finished, I slipped off into the back room, hoping Liszt would forget all about me, but he followed me almost immediately, like a cat with a mouse, took both my hands in his, and said in the most winning way imaginable, "Mademoiselle, vous jouerez quelque-chose, n'est-ce-pas?"

From Project Gutenberg

Once upon a time, so the story goes, a French publisher, planning an elaborate volume on the streets of Paris, went to Honoré de Balzac, then at the height of his fame, to ask him to contribute the chapter on a particular thoroughfare—let us say, the Rue Une Telle, or the Avenue Quelque-Chose.

From Project Gutenberg

His office was just without the walls of the fort, and it was much the fashion among the officers to lounge in there of a morning, to find sport for an idle hour, and to take a glass of brandy-and-water with the old gentleman, which he called "taking a little quelque-chose."

From Project Gutenberg