bien entendu
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of bien entendu
Literally, “well understood”
Example Sentences
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He must have thought it would answer, in one way or another, to have a gentlewoman at the head of his table; and I was not penniless, bien entendu.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
Seedy clerks hustled past portly merchants—not their own masters, bien entendu, but those of other seedy clerks.
From The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman
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 Ernest Belfort Bax
He handed her a check; and, turning to Gatty, added, "At your convenience, sir, bien entendu."
From Christie Johnstone by Charles Reade
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 J. Scott (John Scott) Williams
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