coryphée
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Origin of coryphée
1820–30; < French < Latin coryphaeus coryphaeus
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He suddenly abandoned college, and went off, it was said, with a coryphée.
From Gordon Keith by Page, Thomas Nelson
He gives all his devotions to Nina Beaubien, who dances like a coryphée, and drops her when Alice Renwick comes with her glowing Spanish beauty.
From From the Ranks by King, Charles
A coryphée, pretty and loyal, In amber and red, The ballet she led; Her mother performed at the Royal, Lenore at the Saracen's Head.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Country-bred as she was, she waltzed like a coryphée.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
A coryphée, pretty and loyal,In amber and redThe ballet she led;Her mother performed at the Royal,LENORE at the Saracen’s Head.
From The Bab Ballads by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
A representation of Christ holding a cross aloft was given, and winged angels were hovering here and there, much in the same manner as coryphées and lesser auxiliaries of the ballet.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various
He dined in high places and afterwards supped at the Savoy with the coryphées; and both in the high places and among the coryphées his jewels had made him welcome.
From The Broken Road by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
Who has not sympathized in the joy of Madame de Sevigné, at seeing her fair daughter exhibit among the coryphées!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
Finally, preceded by clouds of gas, the Arch-Comedian in person, supported by spectacled coryphées in brass hats!
From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian
There are twelve coryphées who earn from $25 to $30 per week.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney
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