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11 French vocabulary words
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Definition:1. [French] all; everything; entire2. [English] someone at a racetrack who offers information on racehorses with the best odds
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"Tout ça est une blague. That's always been and always will be.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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“C’est bien tout?”
“C’est. Except for one little thing,
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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Their beauty was Grecian, their deformity Egyptian, their tout ensemble French.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Duc de L'Omelette (1832)
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"[...] You can’t run a business. You’re a failure, a playboy, a racetrack tout.”
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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