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poubelle¹

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French poubelle.

noun poubelles

  1. rare A garbage can. 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 rea

Poubelle²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French Poubelle.

proper noun Poubelles

  1. A surname from French.

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"poubelle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/poubelle. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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poubelle. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/poubelle

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"poubelle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/poubelle.

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@misc{poubelle_2026,
  title = {poubelle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/poubelle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}