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tenue

[ti-nyoo] / tɪˈnyu /






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He knows Ronaldo will be missing for the start of his tenue.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2022

It is clear to me that Mr. Finkel obtained access and a copy of the video during his tenue as an embedded journalist.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2013

W. is to present his lettres de créance and all the Mission en grande tenue at 10.30 to-day.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King

She was en grande tenue for the occasion, dressed, after an old Venetian picture, in dull red brocade, point-lace, and gold ornaments.

From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

The attention of both sexes was persistently called to these matters of behaviour and tenue, which had an importance at that date which we may easily, in our twentieth-century intolerance, ridicule and ignore.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund




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