corbeille

American  

[kawr-buhl, kawr-be-y^uh] / ˈkɔr bəl, kɔrˈbɛ yə /

noun

plural

corbeilles

1. a variant of corbeil.

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Example Sentences

It includes Claude Monet’s water-lily painting “Nympheas en fleur,” estimated to sell for $50 million-$70 million, and Pablo Picasso’s “Fillette a la corbeille fleurie,” which has an estimate of $90 million-$120 million.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2018

For a tumultuous 30 minutes every afternoon, traders mill around a closed-off corbeille on the Paris Bourse to buy and sell gold for French banks.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a matter of fact, her irreverent thoughts were mostly to the effect that all but the historical pieces of the Stoke Revel corbeille would be the better of re-setting by Tiffany or Cartier.

From Robinetta by McAulay, Allan

In prehistoric days, maybe, the water gushed out somewhere near the Chott; the charming depression of the "corbeille" is perhaps the work of human hands.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman

He smiled as he thought of the magnificent corbeille of flowers which he had already sent over to the Restaurant Bavaria to be placed in the breakfast-room.

From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Savage, Richard