pair de France, peer of France. Compare

3. d'immeubles hypothéqués et de créances irrecouvrables, of mortgaged real estâtes and irrecoverable debts. For this use of de, l of sorne/ see Less. 36, iv. 14. relevées correctement, correctly copied.

19. dans des draps, in (some) sheets; but parfumés de lavande, perfumed with (some) lavender. The use of des in the first case, and not in the second, is thus explained. Whenever des, 'some/ is preceded by the préposition de in any of its various meanings — i. e., 'of/ 1 from/ * with,' * by/ etc. — the de alone is used and the des is omitted. If the préposition is other than de, the des is retained.