Word: papillon
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...Berenger's office make a fair accounting for themselves -- no more. Buddy Mear as Papillon does a nice job of caricaturing The Boss, Peter Wirth as the sceptic Botard gets too loud too fast, Richard Petkun as Dudar, the office commer, has no poise whatsoever...
...lovers may appreciate the perky papillon, painted by Fragonard, Boucher, Velasquez and Titian. Its name derives from its butterfly-like ears. Madame de Pompadour always carried one, Marie Antoinette took hers along to prison, and Edith Wharton brought papillons to the U.S., where currently there are 158 registered...
...Members of the Protestant resistance were known as camisards-probably from the white nightshirts (camisia) that they wore at night so they could identify one another in the dark. The nightshirts made them look like butterflies and gave them another nickname: parpaillot, from the word for butterfly (papillon...
...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...
Three weeks ago Ethiopia's deposed little Emperor Haile Selassie walked down the gangplank of the British cruiser Enterprise at Haifa. Behind him trotted his beloved white & tan papillon. Last week at Haifa the Conquered Lion of Judah walked up the gangplank of another British cruiser, the Capetown, which was to take him to Gibraltar. Thence he was expected to make his own way to London. Again the fuzzy little papillon pattered at his heels. Farther behind followed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan and his 12-year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits...