auguste
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of auguste
C20: French, from German
Example Sentences
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Ordinary mortals may find themselves succumbing to a kind of ennui auguste by the time they come to the end of the exhibition.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you have a mind for a true foreign idea, one of the foreign ministers said at the trial to another, "Vraiment cela est auguste."
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
It is clear that the proceeding was irregular and totally unconstitutional, and other French writers hint that Gramont's silence is intended to shield une personne auguste from responsibility for a decision that was fatally wrong.
From Studies in Literature and History by John O. Miller
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