doyenne
Example Sentences
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Many of them were barely in school when the doyenne of Paris fashion took over menswear at Hermes in 1988 with instructions from then company boss Jean-Louis Dumas to run it "like your small company".
From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026
I’m not a hate-watcher of the show or its star — I, too, wish to moonlight as a domestic doyenne.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
And there will be several books too, one of them co-authored by Helen Garner, a doyenne of modern Australian literature.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025
Surely some people will recoil at my likening Meghan’s efforts to those of Queen Martha, doyenne of gracious living and doing everything yourself.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2025
Annette, who looked decidedly sulky, approached the cushion, bent down, and rather abruptly snatched the amazed doyenne of the Pekinese from her voluptuous reveries.
From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
