What is "maison"

Usage examples of "maison".

Catherine amasse ses fleurs sur son bras et, prenant son petit frere par la main, le conduit vers la maison.

Arrives a la maison de jeu, Savine et Leplaquet monterent le perron, Roger, qui voulait faire parler Dayelle sur madame de Barizel et surtout sur Corysandre, parut peu dispose a les suivre.

COMEDIE HUMAINE SCENES DE LA VIE PRIVEE SCENES FROM PRIVATE LIFE La Maison du Chat-qui Pelote At the Sign of the Cat and Racket Le Bal de Sceaux The Ball at Sceaux La Bourse The Purse La Vendetta The Vendetta Mme.

They were taking their time, the pigs, swigging claret in La Maison Bordelaise while he was sidling round pavements with a hamburger.

Apres avoir traverse une rue de village, dont les maisons basses, couvertes de chaume, sont gaiement peintes en bleu clair, nous touchons a la pointe du cap Cornu.

On eut sans doute parcouru toutes les maisons de Bade sans trouver une cuisine aussi sale, aussi pleine de gachis et de desordre que celle-la.

It had also been noticed in the lobby lounge of the Old Royal Maison New Orleans, an area set aside for those requiring liquid refreshments, which was served at small tables overlooking Royal Street.

Traywicke Conyers, general manager of the Old Royal Maison New Orleans, and told him the sky was the limit, presuming, of course, the usual clerical discount.

One could read, chalked on a slate: Rillettes du Morvan Fillet of veal with lentils Cheese Tarte maison The plump Magistrate perked up in this atmosphere, greedily sniffing the thick scent of food.

That was the trouble with willful elder sisters who favored Yanqui officers as lovers, Charlie thought as the buggy pulled in front of dear Maison de Rose and Amaury clucked for the horses to stop.

Frontenac, after visiting the scene of the catastrophe a few weeks after it occurred, writes: "Ils (_les Iroquois_) avoient brusle plus de trois lieues de pays, saccage toutes les maisons jusqu'aux portes de la ville, enleve plus de six vingt personnes, tant hommes, femmes, qu'enfants, apres avoir massacre plus de deux cents dont ils avoient casse la teste aux uns, brusle, rosty, et mange les autres, ouvert le ventre des femmes grosses pour en arracher les enfants, et fait des cruautez inouies et sans exemple.

The Hotel de Castille, the Maison Doree, the Petite Jeannette, the Cafe de Paris, the Cafe Anglais became for three hours the targets of the cannonade.

He wrote them to the Cafe Americain, to Bignon's, to Tortoni's, to the Maison Doree, to the Cafe Riche, to the Helder, to the Cafe Anglais, to the Napolitain, everywhere, everywhere.

He had an estate in Norfolk, this big house, the Maison Grenelle in Dijon, and a villa at Monte Carlo.

Maison Long to be a closely held corporation, fifty-one per cent to you two, forty-nine percent to me, all three of us directors, and we can't sell stock save to each other-except that I retain option to change all or part of my share to nonvoting stock, in which case I can assign it.