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Poilu

noun

A French soldier (especially in World War I).

Thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S.. Synonyms: chicken purloo, purloo.

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"Poilu" Quotes from Famous Books

... their sacrifices. But they were bitterly disillusioned. They expected a country fit for heroes to live in, and what awaited them was a condition of things to which only a defeated people could be asked to resign itself. The food to which the poilu had, for nearly five years, been accustomed at the front was become, since the armistice, the exclusive monopoly of the capitalist or the nouveau-riche in the rear. To obtain a ration of sugar he or his wife had to stand in a long queue ...

— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... distance was, the man was gone more than five minutes. Prescott, who at first could see the soldier as he moved, was not so sure of it later. It was strange how that sky-blue uniform of the poilu merged into the dark ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock

Words linked to "Poilu" : soldier, stew, chicken purloo