What does poubelle mean?
Poubelle means (rare) A garbage can..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) 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 read this?’ and into the poubelle went the offerings.
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.
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.
It was part of a shopping centre, and as I entered, I went straight to a burly security guard, to ask if there was a restaurant, and more importantly, to let him know who the blue poubelle waiting outside belonged to!
Why don’t both of you grow up and put religion into the poubelle?
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Poubelle means (rare) A garbage can..
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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 read this?’ and into the poubelle went the offerings.
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