Word: pourdon
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...what with their great piles of luggage-"nasty-looking Americans, very rude." But they also crop up in Florence, and when Nancy kindly points out the Duomo, they inquire: "Until what time do the stores remain open here?" In their "plastic garments," they occur in Ireland, where they say, "Pourdon me," and ask nuns to close a train window. Nor is England's most hallowed ground safe from the profane American. "Although they descend from people who could not succeed in Europe and furiously shook its dust from their feet, they have a sentimental feeling for ancestors. They even...
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