tenue
Example Sentences
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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
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
They were banished from the drawing-room, except on special occasions, when they came en grande tenue, in their best things, and were jeered at by Mr. Copperhead.
From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
Therefore he put up in the Cathedral city, after having had the empty satisfaction, to a traveller in his exhausted condition, of being received en grande tenue by the garrison.
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.
