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coq

noun C2
  1. A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.

Plural coqs

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“To Monsieur Noirtier, Rue Coq-Héron, Paris.” Had a thunderbolt fallen into the room, Villefort could not have been more stupefied.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 66 · C1
Noirtier, Rue Coq-Héron, No.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 66 · C1
Yesterday a person exactly corresponding with this description was followed, but he was lost sight of at the corner of the Rue de la Jussienne and the Rue Coq-Héron.” Villefort leaned on the back of an armchair, for as the minister of police went on speaking he felt his legs bend under him; but when he learned that the unknown had escaped the vigilance of the agent who followed him, he breathed again.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 105 · C1
“Because yesterday, or the day before, they lost sight of him at the corner of the Rue Coq-Héron.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 115 · C1

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