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cornered

adjectif B2

En français : acculé, coinçé, à coins

  1. Having corners.
  2. Of a person or animal, forced into a difficult or inescapable situation. (figuratively)
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Dans la bibliothèque

Marilla set the candle on a three-legged, three-cornered table and turned down the bedclothes.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 34 · C1
In the other corner was the aforesaid three-cornered table adorned with a fat, red velvet pincushion hard enough to turn the point of the most adventurous pin.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 35 · C1
His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 22 · C1
His rider was a priest, dressed in black, and wearing a three-cornered hat; and, despite of the ardent rays of a noonday sun, the pair came on with a fair degree of rapidity.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 281 · C1

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