poubelle
poubelle noun: a garbage can.
Noun
poubelle (plural poubelles)
- A garbage can.
- Everyone sent her books, knowing how she dreaded a bookless day; Heywood Hill’s, Hamish Hamilton, friends and relations and writers, but she was not always pleased. ‘I can’t think what’s come over the shop, she used to say. (Heywood Hill was always ‘the shop’.) ‘How can they imagine I’m going to...1977, Diana Mosley, “A Vale of Tears”, in A Life of Contrasts: The Autobiography of Diana Mitford Mosley, New York, N.Y.: Times Books, →ISBN, page 277
- Whenever I set off down the street with the blue bag, I would say: “Just going out to the poubelle.” And so I always remembered the jolly, brave Prefect of Paris [Eugène Poubelle], who made it all possible.2002, David Bouchier, “The Wonderful Invention of Monsieur Poubelle”, in The Cats and the Water Bottles and Other Mysteries of French Village Life, New York, N.Y.: ASJA Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, part...
Proper noun capitalized: Poubelle
Poubelle (plural Poubelles)
- A surname from French.
Examples of poubelle in a sentence
- He's stopped making paintings, giving them away or taking them out of their frames and dragging them downhill to poubelle, stacking the little canvases against the large green container.2013 April, Thomas Fuller, “Robaire Walks Like a Surrealist, Begins to Go Crazy”, in Monsieur Ambivalence: A Post Literate Fable, San...
- Why don’t both of you grow up and put religion into the poubelle?2016, Susunaga Weeraperuma, “Annette of Les Arcs”, in Various Kinds of Women: Short Stories, New Delhi: Satyam Books Pvt. Ltd., →ISBN, page...
Forms of poubelle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | poubelles |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Poubelles |
Origin of poubelle
Borrowed from French poubelle.
Borrowed from French Poubelle.
Questions about poubelle
- What does poubelle mean?
- Poubelle means a garbage can.
- How do you use poubelle in a sentence?
- He's stopped making paintings, giving them away or taking them out of their frames and dragging them downhill to poubelle, stacking the little canvases against the large green container.
- What part of speech is poubelle?
- Poubelle can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of poubelle?
- The plural of poubelle is poubelles.
Words near poubelle in the dictionary
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