bien entendu
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of bien entendu
Literally, “well understood”
Example Sentences
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In the immediate neighbourhood of Nürnberg, which was bien entendu one of the chief seats of the Imperial power, a robber-knight leader, named Hans Thomas von Absberg, was a standing menace.
From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort
The bank, bien entendu, is of the past, and you, I hear, are in the far West.
From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)
He is to dogdom what Hillhouse Avenue is to Birch Street—the wrong end, bien entendu.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson
It makes their lives so much more interesting—to the onlooker, bien entendu, but not to themselves.
From Roden's Corner by Merriman, Henry Seton
That is, bien entendu, her old fears and her old hopes; and amid the ruins of the latter new ones were starting, in equally bewildering confusion.
From Nobody by Warner, Susan
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