Manon Lescaut

[ French ma-nawn les-koh ]

noun

1. a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
2. an opera (1893) by Giacomo Puccini.

Example Sentences

I tried to think where I had seen the name, and remembered the first leaf of the copy of Manon Lescaut.

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A portion of its buildings was set apart for young women of bad character, and here Manon Lescaut was imprisoned.

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The name, Manon Lescaut, meant nothing to me then, but the story of the picture was enough by itself.

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It was at this time that she read Manon Lescaut, over and over again.

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It was the day after the evening when she came to see me that I sent her Manon Lescaut.

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