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Racine
[ ruh-seen, ra-or, French, ra-seen ruh-seen, rey- ]
noun
- Jean Bap·tiste [zhah, n, b, a, -, teest], 1639–99, French dramatist.
- a city in SE Wisconsin.
Racine
/ rasin /
noun
- RacineJean Baptiste16391699MFrenchWRITING: poetTHEATRE: dramatist Jean Baptiste (ʒɑ̃ batist). 1639–99, French tragic poet and dramatist. His plays include Andromaque (1667), Bérénice (1670), and Phèdre (1677)
Example Sentences
In November 2012, police officers in Racine County, Wisconsin, pulled Matson over for running a flashing red light.
“I understand your mayor recently suffered the misfortune of being blown up,” Racine says.
We were the only Sikhs in our entire school, and there was only one other Sikh family in Racine, the town where we lived.
He is thought to be little inferior to Racine in the merit of his dramatic compositions.
The tragedies of Corneille and Racine are forcible and finished, and should be read because classical.
This assembly, to which Boileau and Racine afterwards belonged, soon became an academy of itself.
It rests at the base of one of the outer pillars of the Lady Chapel, opposite the spot of Racine's final sepulture.
La Fontaine made his young friend acquainted with the cabarets of the quarter, and Racine studied them not unwillingly.
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