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tenue

[ti-nyoo] / tɪˈnju /






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He knows Ronaldo will be missing for the start of his tenue.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2022

It is clear to me that Mr. Finkel obtained access and a copy of the video during his tenue as an embedded journalist.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2013

Therefore he put up in the Cathedral city, after having had the empty satisfaction, to a traveller in his exhausted condition, of being received en grande tenue by the garrison.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper

The last, wearing the old tenue, black jacket and red trousers, was a good-looking fellow with rather handsome brown eyes.

From A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston

They were banished from the drawing-room, except on special occasions, when they came en grande tenue, in their best things, and were jeered at by Mr. Copperhead.

From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

It is not until much later times that the h in the mutated forms of the tenues, or the use of the dot, was extended to the mediae.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

As a rule the medial mutation of the tenues and mediae is not denoted in O. Welsh.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Those called mediae by the writers on Greek grammar, viz., b, d, g, approach nearer in force to the corresponding tenues p, t, c, than they do in English.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart

Archives du Muséum; i.e., the Procès verbaux des Séances tenues par les Officiers du Jardin des Plantes, from 1790 to 1830, bound in vellum, in thirty-four volumes.

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

The mutations seem to have started in the second half of the 6th century in the case of the tenues.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various




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