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épergne

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Noun

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épergne (plural épergnes)

  1. Alternative spelling of epergne
    • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 80:
      They made there, on the breakfast-table, a patch, as it were, of mosaic among the silver chafing dishes, silver épergnes filled with peaches in pyramids, and great silver rose-bowls […].