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à propos de bottes

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(dated) Apropos of nothing; without connection to anything; unrelatedly, by the way.
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(Fr.), apropos of boots—i.e. without real relevancy.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
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"I've been bathing," said Mr. Chase, a propos des bottes.
"Oh," I replied. "And I wish," I added, "that you'd drowned yourself."
But I added it silently to myself.

P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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Kitty Shtcherbatskaya, who had à propos de bottes poured out a stream of irrelevant absurdities with such spiteful fury, every nobleman with whom he had made acquaintance had become his adherent.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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