What is "paillard"

Usage examples of "paillard".

Simon had despised Lucie Paillard for the callous way she had abandoned her babe, allowed Luc to freeze to death on that barren hillside.

Now all he could think of was Colette Paillard with her trembling mouth and sad eyes.

Guise, she would not even have noticed the Silver Rose if that Paillard girl had not tried to kill her.

Gaspard Paillard offered a considerable dowry to get her a husband, an older man, an earnest and respectable miller who was willing to marry her despite everything, but Lucie would have none of it.

Hunched into one of the chairs, Monsieur Paillard sat and stared at nothing, a hollow expression on his face.

Instead, he stoically accepted the abuse as Madame Paillard sobbed and railed.

Monsieur Paillard vanished into the kitchen, Simon stood with his head bowed.

The same man who had risked going alone to confront a dangerous enemy to keep Miri safe, the one who had cradled Colette Paillard in his arms, trying to absorb her pain.

Manacled to the wall, Lucie Paillard hung unconscious from her chains, no longer fresh-scrubbed, no longer clean, no longer pretty.

And now the Paillard girl had slipped into the dark arms of death, taking the rest of her secrets with her.

And not out of any self-interest as he insisted, but out of that same concern and compassion that had led him to comfort Madame Paillard, to grieve and pray over the grave of an abandoned babe.

But Simon was a bitter reminder of his cowardice, and Paillard would have been relieved to never clap eyes upon the witch-hunter again.

Doubtless she had been engaged to replace the pair of hands lost when Lucie Paillard had vanished.

Once as pretty and youthful as her daughter, Colette Paillard looked like a lovely gown that had been worn too hard, faded from too much washing and bleaching in the sun.

Simon tried again to follow, but once more Madame Paillard detained him.