coryphées
- plural of coryphée.
Example Sentences
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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
But these modern coryphées of Rieka and Dalmatia are so forgetful.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Baerlein, Henry
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)
But the coryphées that had danced there were migrating.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar
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
