poubelle

plural poubelles

1. rareA garbage can.

   Why don’t both of you grow up and put religion into the poubelle?

   2016, Susunaga Weeraperuma, “Annette of Les Arcs”, in Various Kinds of Women: Short Stories, New Delhi: Satyam Books Pvt. Ltd., →ISBN, page 46

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   Everyone sent her books, knowing how she dreaded a bookless day; Heywood Hill’s, Hamish Hamilton, friends and relations and writers, but she was not always pleased. ‘I can’t think what’s come over the shop, she used to say. (Heywood Hill was always ‘the shop’.) ‘How can they imagine I’m going to read this?’ and into the poubelle went the offerings.

   1977, Diana Mosley, “A Vale of Tears”, in A Life of Contrasts: The Autobiography of Diana Mitford Mosley, New York, N.Y.: Times Books, →ISBN, page 277

   Whenever I set off down the street with the blue bag, I would say: “Just going out to the poubelle.” And so I always remembered the jolly, brave Prefect of Paris [Eugène Poubelle], who made it all possible.

   2002, David Bouchier, “The Wonderful Invention of Monsieur Poubelle”, in The Cats and the Water Bottles and Other Mysteries of French Village Life, New York, N.Y.: ASJA Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, part I (Village Life), page 38

   He's stopped making paintings, giving them away or taking them out of their frames and dragging them downhill to poubelle, stacking the little canvases against the large green container.

   2013 April, Thomas Fuller, “Robaire Walks Like a Surrealist, Begins to Go Crazy”, in Monsieur Ambivalence: A Post Literate Fable, San Francisco, Calif.: IF SF Publishing, →ISBN, book 3, page 83

   It was part of a shopping centre, and as I entered, I went straight to a burly security guard, to ask if there was a restaurant, and more importantly, to let him know who the blue poubelle waiting outside belonged to!

   2015, Mark Haubrick, “Day 90”, in Where’s Ya Bin? Across Europe!, Guildford, Surrey: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 121

plural Poubelles

1. A surname from French.