De Lancey

American  

[duh lan-see] / də ˈlæn si /

noun

1. James, 1703–60, American jurist and politician in New York.

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Example Sentences

And Guy de Lancey’s scenography is outstanding: each element of the set, video, lighting and projections shaping our perception of what is murky and uncertain and what is bright and sure.

From New York Times

Katharine de Lancey Anawalt and Harrison Piecuch Gish are to be married Sept. 1 at Houston Hall, an events space in New York.

From New York Times

De Lancey’s mills are long gone.

From The New Yorker

For centuries, the falls powered mills; in the seventeen-hundreds they were owned by the De Lancey family.

From The New Yorker

In 1783, when George Washington, having won the war, came riding through what’s now the Bronx, and James De Lancey and his men had fled, something basically if imperfectly good replaced something basically if imperfectly evil—as simple as that.

From The New Yorker