doyenne

Example Sentences

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As if ecological devastation weren’t enough, Bug and Aurelia must also deal with the machinations of the disembodied Technalis ruler, Doyenne, a featureless head floating above her lair.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2023

Is it also conceivable that she is the Doyenne of Mediocrity?

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2018

Doyenne Marie Dressler does a double take and replies, “Oh, my dear, that’s something you need never worry about.”

From Time • Nov. 1, 2011

Though he sometimes drops by the establishment of international Disco Doyenne Regine on Spain's Costa del Sol, he never shakes his booties when there is a match to be played.

From Time Magazine Archive

The favourite club, which had its mot de passe, was in the Rue Doyenne, old quarter St Thomas de Louvre; and the house was a hotel of the xviith century.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir