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 Cunningham, Peter
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 Miller, John O.
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