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pourboire

[ poor-bwar; English poor-bwahr ]

noun

French.
plural pourboires
  1. a gratuity; tip.


pourboire

/ purbwar /

noun

  1. a tip; gratuity
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Origin of pourboire1

Literally, “for drinkingâ€
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pourboire1

literally: for drinking
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For instance, the French term for a gratuity, he noted, is “pourboire,†or roughly translated, “for drink.â€

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At length we reached a lonely farmhouse, at which, he implied, we were to alight; and we paid him his little bill, with the addition of a small pourboire.

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"Do you want to give me a lift with the biggest pieces?" asked the messenger; "my orders are to give you a good pourboire."

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It’s not the custom at Geneva to give a pourboire for so short a drive. 

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But he, glaring at me with his dim eyes, remarked, sneering, "So you want a pourboire because you have supported your sick mother and not poisoned your brother?"

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