tenue

Example Sentences

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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

I came in the garb of ordinary life; and at once felt uncomfortable when, mounting the stairs, I was received by a portly gentleman and an affable lady in violent tenue de soir.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

After midday on the 29th, Ruzzini and his sixty senators, each in his gondola, arrived at San Spirito, and found the household of the ambassador drawn up along the landing-place en grande tenue.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

As far as personnel was concerned, this cupboard was left as bare as a fashionable lady's back when en grande tenue in "Victory Year."

From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir