poilu

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Borrowed from French poilu (“brave”). Doublet of plew.

**Poilu's Dream on Christmas Eve, The. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
One poilu, holding up his envelope, remarked to his neighbour: "Elle verse des gouttes d'ciel, notr' 'tite gran'me." — Tatterdemalion, John Galsworthy
Husson, who, after adjusting her spectacles on her thin nose, read as follows: Bread...........................four sous Milk............................two sous Butter .........................eight sous Malvina Levesque got into trouble last year with Mathurin Poilu. — Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant

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