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Bac   Listen
noun
Bac  n.  
1.
A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
2.
A vat or cistern. See 1st Back.





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"Bac" Quotes from Famous Books



... fortune! Your father paid three million francs for the Presles estate, and he has thirty thousand francs a year in stocks! Oh!—he has no secrets from me. He talks of buying the Hotel de Navarreins, in the Rue du Bac. Madame Marneffe herself has forty thousand francs a year.—Ah!—here is our guardian angel, here comes your mother!" she exclaimed, hearing ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac
... merely serves up a tissue of picturesque and easily disproved falsehoods. A number of these, by the way, together with some additional embroideries, are set out at greater length in other volumes by Ferdinand Bac (who confounds Ludwig I with Maximilian II) and the equally unreliable Eugene de Mirecourt and Auguste Papon. German writers, on the other hand, have, if apt to be long-winded, at least avoided the more obvious pitfalls. Among the ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham


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