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pourboire

[ poor-bwar; English poor-bwahr ]

noun

French.
plural pourboires
  1. a gratuity; tip.


pourboire

/ purbwar /

noun

  1. a tip; gratuity
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of pourboire1

Literally, 鈥渇or drinking鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of pourboire1

literally: for drinking
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For instance, the French term for a gratuity, he noted, is 鈥減ourboire,鈥 or roughly translated, 鈥渇or drink.鈥

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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.

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"Do you want to give me a lift with the biggest pieces?" asked the messenger; "my orders are to give you a good pourboire."

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It鈥檚 not the custom at Geneva to give a pourboire for so short a drive.聽

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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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