What is "clochard"

Usage examples of "clochard".

At which point the clochard woke up and promptly started making gestures of such obscene solicitations that the femme de chambre flounced out of the room, much to the delight of them both.

An old, gray bearded clochard was squatting on the quai, head now sunk upon his chest, now rearing up to fling this sound at the passers-by.

Notre Dame, over the river running by, past windows aflame with the setting sun, stopping for a moment to buy some wine and to watch two clochard lying astride a metro grill, their faces laced with wine and grime, simmering gently, like a country stew.

Once the clochard tried to turn her toward him and to dance with her cheek to cheek.

Was Clochard, a divorce, thinking of making his latest love an honest woman, with this public appearance?

Right now he stood somewhat uncomfortably beside Justice Minister Clochard, who bore a red velvet pillow on which were arrayed two ribboned medals.

Your clochard pinched it, hung Auguste on the pull-and-let-go to conceal his crime, was then seized by remorse and cut himself.

And a clochard upsets a candle or something and sets the straw and junk ablaze.

What did the clochard, maybe, or old Auguste, or the two between them, find out?

And the clochard, whose winter quarters were in that house you burned down.

And what, as Commissaire Marchand might say, is a clochard more or less?

I even spent some time in Paris studying clochards, but I decided that their way of life is both uncomfortable and unnecessary and leads to what most lives lead to, a half-conscious dream that turns in a half-circle.

There are courtyards and long-dead clochards, and even a tiny garden planted with Busy Lizzie by the holy nuns who look after female prisoners.

His car was parked between the poplars, a little down the road, in the direction in which Monsieur Souche had found the clochard.