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galère ga-LUR noun an unsavory group of individuals; a group of similar individuals 1931Above the Dark TumultBut, mystery of mysteries, what had Osmund to do in this galère? Osmund, the aristocrat, to be mixed in this degraded crowd, and involved in a burglary as common and vulgar as any in the cheapest novelette!1968A Small Town In GermanyIn six months he's changed the whole galère.1986The Moronic Inferno & Other Visits to AmericaIn such a galère, literary comrades are doing pretty well if they are merely 'ghastly'…Labels: Hugh Walpole, John Le Carre, Martin Amis
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