âme damnée

American  

[ahm dah-ney] / ˈɑm dɑˈneɪ /

noun

French.

• âmes damnées
  plural

1. a person who is willingly or blindly the tool of another person.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• âmes damnées
  plural

Etymology

Origin of âme damnée

Literally, “damned soul”

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

âme damnée

Though, to be sure, this very morning I had another note from Cadogan—Marlborough's âme damnée you know—pressing it on me that nothing should get abroad.

From The Highwayman by H. C. (Henry Christopher) Bailey

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

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

This gentleman was the satellite, the adherent, and field marshal, the âme damnée, of Mackintavers.

From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones

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