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 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
Country-bred as she was, she waltzed like a coryphée.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
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
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
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
But these modern coryphées of Rieka and Dalmatia are so forgetful.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein
But the coryphées that had danced there were migrating.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
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 James Dabney McCabe
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