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Le New York Times a sollicité leurs avis, et les réponses — plus de 1000 messages de Belgique, de France et d’ailleurs — vont bien au-delà de la question des tenues de plage.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2016

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

"Quid iuvat ornato procedere, vita, capillo   Et tenues Coa veste movere sinus?"

From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)

Les statistiques tenues en France témoignent que le poids moyen de la lettre n'atteint pas 10 grammes; il reste donc une marge de 5 grammes avec le poids actuel.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.

Compare this with Pliny's "Seres lanitia silvarum nobiles, perfusam aqua depectentes frondium caniciem," or Claudian's "Stamine, quod molli tondent de stipite Seres, Frondea lanigerae carpentes vellera silvae; Et longum tenues tractus producit in aurum."

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry