tout ensemble
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The tout ensemble is generally very striking, even where the architectural purist is apt to grumble at the shortcomings of most of the detail.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
In short, the tout ensemble of this strange youth was that of a noble and handsome boy that another brace of summers would develop into a splendid-looking man.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
From the marshy ground rose the cries of curlews and peewits,—the drumming of snipe and the hoarse croakings of many frogs making an unearthly tout ensemble.
From 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison by Caunter, John Alan Lyde
Individually these features were distinctly attractive, but there was something about the tout ensemble that supplied an immediate answer to the owner's extremely frank question.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
The horses are well-bred, though many of them not well groomed; the riders are graceful and plucky, and the tout ensemble makes a fair picture to the lover of horseflesh and sport.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham
