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couteau

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couteau [kuːˈtəʊ]
n pl -teaux [-ˈtəʊz]
(Engineering / Tools) a large two-edged knife used formerly as a weapon
[from Old French coutel, from Latin cultellus a little knife, from culter knife, ploughshare]


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] il faut noter la fabrication de manches de couteau, de grosses cloches en bois tres dur, de boucliers et, ce qui est tres special a la tribu, de masques qui trouvent leur usage dans les danses .
At the time this meant the avant-garde art movements of Dadaism and Surrealism, with whose leaders Martinu collaborated on the libretti of his operas: with the Dadaist playwright Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes on the operas Tears of the Knife / Larmes de couteau (1928) and the "film" opera Three Wishes / Les trois souhaits (1929) and later with the Surrealist playwright Georges Neveux on the opera Juliette (1937), which became Martinu's most famous operatic work.
 
 
 
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