corps diplomatique
Britishnoun
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He asked me if I belonged to the corps diplomatique.
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Welcome to head-quarters, my dear colleague," cried the latter, as he held out his hand; "the corps diplomatique is well represented--I was its only member up to this time!
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Perhaps the Englishmen would be at this Congress,–the travelling corps might then have as great entertainment as a corps diplomatique, after having first had just such occupation as theirs.
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He had a good house, a first-rate chef, six horses, and plenty of society,—a corps diplomatique of pleasant folk and their wives; cheerful reunions every evening; sometimes a dinner at the Grand Duke's Court.
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Only, she was struck by the fact that, abroad, the members of the corps diplomatique were not stared at so much as in the opera at the Hague or on the terrace at Scheveningen.
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