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pourboire
[ poor-bwar; English poor-bwahr ]
noun
- a gratuity; tip.
pourboire
/ purbwar /
noun
- a tip; gratuity
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pourboire1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pourboire1
Example Sentences
For instance, the French term for a gratuity, he noted, is 鈥減ourboire,鈥 or roughly translated, 鈥渇or drink.鈥
At length we reached a lonely farmhouse, at which, he implied, we were to alight; and we paid him his little bill, with the addition of a small pourboire.
"Do you want to give me a lift with the biggest pieces?" asked the messenger; "my orders are to give you a good pourboire."
It鈥檚 not the custom at Geneva to give a pourboire for so short a drive.聽
But he, glaring at me with his dim eyes, remarked, sneering, "So you want a pourboire because you have supported your sick mother and not poisoned your brother?"
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