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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

I was dismayed at the lack of tenue he had shown.

From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Marie Van Vorst

The rooms were all right again, my Marchioness was en grande tenue, amber silk, black lace, diamonds, and all that sort of style.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

Annabel Cleeve and Mrs Skeffington-Smythe, who were dining with us, were also en grande tenue.

From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley

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

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

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

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




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