âme damnée
Americannoun
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âmes damnées
plural
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Etymology
Origin of âme damnée
Literally, “damned soul”
Example Sentences
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For once, the paper-white face of Andray Dunnan's âme damnée showed expression, but whether it was fear, surprise, shock, hatred, anger, or what combination of them, Trask could no more than guess.
From Space Viking by H. Beam Piper
The officer was Mornac, the Emperor’s alter ego, or âme damnée, who had taken over the entire department the very day I left Paris for the frontier.
From The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
This gentleman was the satellite, the adherent, and field marshal, the âme damnée, of Mackintavers.
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones
Robert has an âme damnée in the shape of a knight named Bertram, to whose malign influence most of his crimes and follies are due.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
She suffered from chronic toothache, as well as from repressed romantic aspirations, and was the âme damnée of Rupert.
From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle
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