dite
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dite
1905–10; reflecting regional pronunciation of doit, in the sense “trifle”
Example Sentences
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One was Marianne Dubreuil dite Brion, who owned the apartment I rented and also owned seven slaves.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019
Marianne Dubreuil dite Brion was daughter to Nanette, a former slave who was sold, along with her four children, to a French woman and her husband.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019
As what seems to have happened to the stolen paintings from the Rotterdam Kunsthal museum last year when thieves took these paintings: Femme devant une fenêtre ouverte, dite la Fiancée, 1888.
From Scientific American • Jul. 23, 2013
Les nomes de ceaux q’furent mortz a la dite battaile sont ceux.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir
In th' manetime I'd advise ye to be careful iv ye'er dite.
From Mr. Dooley Says by Dunne, Finley Peter
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