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

The attention of both sexes was persistently called to these matters of behaviour and tenue, which had an importance at that date which we may easily, in our twentieth-century intolerance, ridicule and ignore.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

We found the same bustle and preparation at the station here—the Governor of Varsovie, and Préfet de Police en tenue, and our Consul, M. Bérard.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King

It is not that," her tone was sarcastic, "so much as that you probably have a sense of tenue, as the Duchesse says.

From Man and Maid by Glyn, Elinor