tout ensemble
Example Sentences
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Harry had been more than usually scrupulous in his dress; but when they met at the breakfast-table, his guest’s clerical tout ensemble beat him hollow.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 by Various
A Vandyke beard completed the tout ensemble of a visage which, once seen, was rarely forgotten by friend or foe.
From A Modern Buccaneer by Boldrewood, Rolf
And that disturbance of the heart's action which Eulenburg and Guttmann consider an essential element is found in Cases 1, 2, 4 and 5; so that the tout ensemble presented by Case 4 is corroborated.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
I well recollect the tout ensemble of that scene.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
It was his towering, bald forehead, and something of command and savage energy in his lowering face, that redeemed the tout ensemble from an almost brutal vulgarity.
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
