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

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

Kim Gordon, “Bye Bye” Sonic Youth’s noise doyenne doing Patti Smith-style spoken word over too-wrecked-for-Playboi-Carti trap beats?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

Dubbed "the doyenne of dinosaur discovery," Lowery has found hundreds of bones and more than 100 dinosaur footprints.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

He picked a fight with the grande doyenne of the Melbourne underground.

From Underground by Dreyfus, Suelette