What is "pucelles"

Usage examples of "pucelles".

A party of Calliope sailors went below to mend the tiller ropes, while some Pucelles, led by Hopper, the big man who commanded Captain Chase's gig, hoisted a British ensign above the French flag.

The bespectacled enemy officer still tried to render the Pucelle's guns useless by jettisoning their rammers, but Clouter threw the axe and its blade thumped into the man's skull like a tomahawk and his death seemed to still the frenzy, or perhaps it was Captain Chase's insistent voice shouting that the Pucelles should stop fighting because the remaining Frenchmen were trying to surrender.

A party of Calliope sailors went below to mend the tiller ropes, while some Pucelles, led by Hopper, the big man who commanded Captain Chase’s gig, hoisted a British ensign above the French flag.

The bespectacled enemy officer still tried to render the Pucelle’s guns useless by jettisoning their rammers, but Clouter threw the axe and its blade thumped into the man’s skull like a tomahawk and his death seemed to still the frenzy, or perhaps it was Captain Chase’s insistent voice shouting that the Pucelles should stop fighting because the remaining Frenchmen were trying to surrender.

The bill was stag­gering—and so was I, since we had downed a couple of bottles of splendid '75 Leflaive Pucelles Puligny-Montrachet along with the meal, and my alcohol capacity still wasn't quite back up to snuff.