Meaning & use
Trouvaille
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A lucky find, especially a delightful discovery made by chance.
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The secondhand bookshop yielded a real trouvaille: a first edition tucked between paperbacks.
Finding that quiet café was a trouvaille she still talks about years later.
A note on using this word
Borrowed directly from French, where "trouver" means "to find"; it retains its French flavor and is mostly used in literary or witty English writing.
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