bel-esprit
[ bel-es-pree ]
/ bɛl ɛsˈpri /
noun, plural beaux-es·prits [boh-zes-pree]. /boʊ zɛsˈpri/. French. a person of great wit or intellect.
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How to use bel-esprit in a sentence
I was sitting in this big empty house in Bel Air, with a phone with five extensions which we no longer needed.
Brooks: We holed up in the Bel Air Hotel, where Gene was staying, and we acted all the parts out.
CHERISHED MEMORIES FROM SHOOTING Tim Matheson: We shot near Ronald Reagan's Bel Air home, the Western White House.
One theme that truly defines the film beyond esprit de corps and survival is lack of communication.
McCain and the boys will likely support him quickly and painlessly as a matter of senatorial esprit de corps!
Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness.
The king, therefore, put them to death, and delivered Bel into the power of Daniel: who destroyed him and his temple.
But if you can shew that Bel eateth these things, Daniel shall die, because he hath blasphemed against Bel.
Esprit du clerg, ou le Christianisme primitif veng des entreprises et des excs de nos Prtres modernes.
Don't you realize that you are about to be flung over a cliff and that a mad bull is waiting bel-o-o-w to catch you on his horns?
British Dictionary definitions for bel-esprit
noun plural beaux esprits (boz ɛspri)
Word Origin for bel esprit
literally: fine wit
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