abbé
noun
(especially in France)
abbés
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pluralof abbé.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The abbés and men of learning are of easy access enough, but few English that travel have knowledge enough to take any great pleasure in that company.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
Yes, we can say it among ourselves," Des Hermies returned, "in the nineteenth century the number of foul-minded abbés has been legion.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
They were imitated in their vices by a rabble of priests out of place, to whom the title of abbot was given in politeness, the little abbés of French biography and fiction.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
In the literary coteries of the capital, in the incipient French Academy, over which the Protestant Conrart presided, abbés and pastors were reconciled in common admiration for an elegant alexandrine or a correct period.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Charles Bastide
They saw the dauphin and his brothers dine in public, before a crowd of princes of the blood, nobles, abbés, and all the miscellaneous throng of a court.
From Burke by John Morley
