tenue
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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
We found the same bustle and preparation at the station here—the Governor of Varsovie, and Préfet de Police en tenue, and our Consul, M. Bérard.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
After midday on the 29th, Ruzzini and his sixty senators, each in his gondola, arrived at San Spirito, and found the household of the ambassador drawn up along the landing-place en grande tenue.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
"In Scutari it is necessary that I should be en tenue," was his explanation.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon
The mutations seem to have started in the second half of the 6th century in the case of the tenues.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Archives du Muséum; i.e., the Procès verbaux des Séances tenues par les Officiers du Jardin des Plantes, from 1790 to 1830, bound in vellum, in thirty-four volumes.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
It is not until much later times that the h in the mutated forms of the tenues, or the use of the dot, was extended to the mediae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Those called mediae by the writers on Greek grammar, viz., b, d, g, approach nearer in force to the corresponding tenues p, t, c, than they do in English.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart
As a rule the medial mutation of the tenues and mediae is not denoted in O. Welsh.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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