coryphée
Americannoun
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coryphées
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of coryphée
1820–30; < French < Latin coryphaeus coryphaeus
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From adventuress to evangelist; coryphée, courtesan, and convert, each in turn.
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham
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 Charles King
He suddenly abandoned college, and went off, it was said, with a coryphée.
From Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
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 Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
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 Carolyn Wells
But the coryphées that had danced there were migrating.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
In the sixteenth century the winged angels have often a degenerate similitude to tightly laced coryphées, who balance themselves upon their wheels as if they were performing a vaudeville turn.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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 A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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
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
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