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madeleine

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nounfeminine
  1. madeleinesmall gateau in the shape of a scallop shell
  2. madeleinesomething which brings back a memory

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  • Comme les manches de la robe se portaient alors très-courtes, celles de la chemise, terminées par des poignets de valenciennes, laissaient voir un avant-bras nu, blanc, ferme, modelé comme celui de la belle Madeleine au Désert du Corrège, et terminé par la plus aristocratique main du monde.As the sleeves of the dress were then very short, those of the shirt, finished with the wrists of valenciennes, let see a forearm naked, white, firm, shaped like that of the beautiful Madeleine at the Desert of the Corrège, and finished by the most aristocratic hand in the world.B2Le Chevalier de Mornac

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