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Purgatoire
[ pur-guh-twahr, ‑-tawr-ee, ‑-tohr-ee ]
noun
- a river in SE Colorado, flowing NE to the Arkansas River. 186 miles (299 km) long.
Example Sentences
State officials now are offering new leases to energy companies for drilling on 13,000 acres of Las Animas County south of the Purgatoire River for extraction of helium.
A group of bearded men stayed up late, talking paleo shop, but the next morning, everyone was up early, eager to get back to their sites along the Purgatoire River.
The earliest work on the program, “Motet Pour les Tréspassés à 8: Plainte des Âmes du Purgatoire,” was a product of Charpentier’s service to the Guise family, which endured a swift series of calamitous deaths during the early 1670s.
Mais si vous vistes jamais tirer quelqu'un à quatre chevaux, quelqu'un brusler à petit feu, enrager de faim ou de soif, une heure de purgatoire est pire que tout cela.’
Saint-Bernard, dans son sermon De obitu Humberti, affirme que tous les tourments de cette vie sont joies si on les compare à une seconde des peines du purgatoire.
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