Definition of Cailles

1. caille [n] - See also: caille

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cailles

cahoot
cahootchie
cahooted
cahooting
cahoots
cahow
cahows
cahs
caicco
caiccos
caid
caids
caillach
caillachs
caille
cailles (current term)
caimac
caimacam
caimacams
caimacs
caiman
caiman lizard
caimans
caimitillo
caimito
caimitos
cain't
cainogeneses
cainogenesis
cainophobia

Literary usage of Cailles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering by Jessup Whitehead (1903)
"SE-"One of the sights of the streets of Paris to-day are the hand-carts full of live quails (cailles de vigne) which arc wheeled about by itinerant ..."

2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"... and has on it five or fix villages, in two of which there are cailles : there are ... cailles ..."

3. The Gastronomic Regenerator: A Simplified and Entirely New System of Cookery by Alexis Soyer (1847)
"Turban des cailles a la Financiere. Roast eight quails in vegetables, ... Turban des cailles ««<?.' concombres. Roast seven quails as before, ..."

4. Killing is Murder: Or, An Answer to a Treasonous Pamphlet Entituled, Killing by Michael Hawke (1657)
"... cailles, Towns, Camps, Palace, Senate, all your places, but your Temples ; and if our forces were unequal to yours, ..."

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